[phobos] Time to get ready for the next release

[David Simcha]

Since you brought up std.parallelism, there's one renegade issue I need to
look into pronto if we're going to get it out for next release.  It seems to
cause access violations on Windows when compiled as part of the Phobos unit
tests.  However, I doubt this is a bug in std.parallelism as opposed to
either DMD or my makefile changes because:

1.  std.parallelism passes all its unit tests when compiled by itself.

2.  It only happens on Windows.

3.  If I put a print statement at the beginning of the first unit test of
std.parallelism, it never prints before the access violation occurs.

I don't even know if the access violation is happening at compile time or
runtime, since the way Phobos unittests work on Windows it's non-trivial to
tell.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com>wrote:

> It's now been two months since the last release, and there have been
> huge compiler improvements.
> Note also that there were a couple of very bad regressions in 2.052,
> so I think we really need a release ASAP.
> We've now achieved minimal stability again (all green on the auto-tester).
>
> Here's the things which are blockers for the next release:
>
> From the compiler side:
> * struct destruction of temporaries (seems like we have a chance of
> fixing this soon)
> * fixing the regressions from my CTFE/const folding changes (Fixes are
> here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/37).
> * a few things haven't been backported to D1 yet
> druntime:
> * clean up Windows DLL support
> phobos:
> * nothing that I know of
>
> Looks as though will be time to get std.parallelism in. But otherwise,
> if you have anything you'd like to get into the next release, please
> indicate so now.
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