[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553

[Sean Kelly]

The copyright text should be boilerplate. I add authors ontje author  
line in order of contribution--creator would be first, etc.

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On May 25, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>  
wrote:

> I suspected it's a one-off kind of thing. Thanks, Don.
>
> (Of course that doesn't diminish the value of being careful about  
> checking in.)
>
> One more thing - at some point while browsing the commits I saw a  
> copyright notice with someone's name. I forgot who it was. It was  
> added as the only named copyright notice on an existing module that  
> didn't previously have one. The way the commit looked, it was as if  
> that one author put his copyright on the entire module, including  
> the existing stuff and his added stuff. In such cases the adder  
> should also add the copyright notices of the previous known  
> contributors to the file (to be found as @author tags, most of the  
> time it's Walter and sometimes it's him and others such as Don,  
> Sean, myself, and others) so we all share the blame.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei
>
> On 05/25/2010 09:45 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 25 May 2010 16:30, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad<lars at kyllingen.net>   
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 07:21 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> [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 :)
>>
>> This is a build which doesn't work anywhere. In this particular
>> instance, DMD and Phobos must be synchronized; this always happens
>> when changes to intrinsics occur.
>>
>> It's possible to have a successful build, check in your Phobos
>> changes, but have a DMD change in the meantime which causes it to
>> break.
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