[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Yah, I'm not asking for walking on water. Most work is not heavily 
platform-dependent, but if you feel it is, point that out.

Math code turns out to be quite platform-dependent.


Andrei

On 05/25/2010 09:22 AM, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> A further option: if you can't verify all platforms build, indicate what platform(s) you *did* build with.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Steve Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com>
>> To: Discuss the phobos library for D<phobos at puremagic.com>
>> Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 10:21:34 AM
>> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553
>>
>>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Andrei Alexandrescu<
>> ymailto="mailto:andrei at erdani.com"
>> href="mailto:andrei at erdani.com">andrei at erdani.com>
>> My epic saga
>> of getting things to build hasn't ended. In fact
>> my initial goal was
>> just to build the html, but that uses wine, which in turn
>> has a
>> problem.
>
> [snip]
>
>> It's great to have so many people contribute
>> to Phobos,
>> but I've never had such a long streak of non-builds. It
>> looks like new scale of
>> contribution asks for corresponding
>> responsibility. Please, make sure everything
>> builds before checking in,
>> and announce to this list if you broke the build and
>> are unable to fix
>> it without help.
>
> I understand your frustration, but it might be
>> unreasonable to ask people to ensure a build occurs properly on all OSes before
>> checking in, this might not be practical (disclaimer: I haven't tried building
>> the latest, maybe the build doesn't work anywhere :)
>
> Another option is to
>> use branches and merging, but dsource's SVN server is very outdated, and doesn't
>> support the better merging capability that the latest version does.
>
> Also,
>> why wine is needed for any building of anything?  Is it even a supported
>> platform?
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
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