[phobos] Any reason we're not ready for a release?

[Don Clugston]

On 5 May 2011 20:14, Max Samukha <maxsamukha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > On 5/4/2011 9:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> > > The one thing that I'm aware of that was a problem thanks to Don's
>> > > CTFE
>> > > changes which I don't know whether it was fixed or not was QtD. IIRC,
>> > > Max
>> > > was saying that it was seriously broken earlier. There's a good chance
>> > > that it's fine now, but I think that we should make sure that QtD is
>> > > no
>> > > longer failing to build due to the CTFE changes.
>> >
>> > I folded in patches to dmd requested by Qt. If there are other issues
>> > with
>> > Qt, are they in bugzilla?
>>
>> No, I don't believe so. I just recall that when the recent CTFE changes
>> came
>> up in one of the threads in the main newsgroup, and I mentioned that they
>> were
>> still broken, because my recent changes to std.datetime weren't compiling,
>> Max
>> said that they were causing a lot of failures for QtD as well.
>
>
> There is a confusion somewhere. I have been distracted from QtD recently and
> have not followed the NG either. Unless I sleepwalk, I couldn't try Don's
> CTFE changes.
>
>>
>> I doubt that he
>> would have created a bug report though, given that Don was in the middle
>> of
>> his changes. It's quite possible that it compiles fine now though. I just
>> think that it should be verified that the CTFE changes are now stable
>> enough
>> that QtD is no longer failing to build because of them as it was before.
>> Much
>> as Don's changes are definitely something that we want, they risk causing
>> serious regressions if we're not careful.
>
> I have just tried to build the public branch of QtD with a recent dmd
> (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/3fcc2344681ab9d31d1897188f36051c9beb247f)
> on linux. The build has completed without errors.
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3516 remains critical.

3516 is fixed AFAIK. Do you have a test case that still fails?