[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1564

[Don Clugston]

On 28 May 2010 20:34, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Don, what's your top 5 list of unfixed bugs?

After this one:
(A) Deterministic destruction does not work.
3516  Destructor not called on temporaries
3323 Segfault or ICE(e2ir.c) using struct with destructor almost anywhere
1894 scope(exit) is ignored except in compound statements

(B)  Module protection does not work
314 [module] Static, renamed, and selective imports are always public

(C) AAs don't work with structs
2451 Adding structs that use opAssign or postblit to an AA is broken

Which is actually not too different to the list of most voted bugs.
These are the ones where I think someone could legitimately decide not
to use D based on the existence of that single bug. I used to have a
long list of such bugs (most involved wrong code generation), but
almost all of them have been fixed.

> From my personal wish list: I'd really love to see increased focus on
> patch integration.  There's a lot of them out there, many with authors who
> are eager to improve their patches if needed and just need the nudges.
> More attention to patches ==> more happy patch submitters ==> more
> submissions ==> faster bug fixing.

I agree, and the original success of Linux has often been attributed to that.
We might not be too far from the point where Walter spends most of his
time integrating patches...
And it'll be well worth thinking about what we can do to make that as
easy as possible.