[phobos] Deprecation of std.date

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday 16 January 2011 18:34:30 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Great, thanks. In the meantime, unfortunately std.datetime breaks Phobos
> unittests at least on OSX with an internal error message:
> 
> Internal error: backend/cod2.c 4530

Well, the tests compile and pass on Linux and Windows (though the tests are 
currently disabled on Windows unless you build with version=testStdDateTime 
since, for some reason, when compiling the unittests for all of Phobos (instead 
of just std.datetime), the compiler runs out of memory if the unit tests for 
std.datetime are included: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5454 ).

From the message that you give there, it sounds like std.datetime's unit tests 
fail to compile on OSX due to a compiler bug, and I really don't know what to do 
about that. I could make it so that the unit tests only run on Linux instead of 
Posix (unless you use version=testdStdDateTime), but I don't know if 
std.datetime really works properly or OSX or not. At least with Windows, I know 
that the tests pass as long as I run them separately. I don't have a Mac to play 
around with though. So, I really don't know what to do about the Mac.

- Jonathan M Davis