On Thursday, 10 September 2015 at 17:46:53 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> Well, it's a little too late, but the compiler outputs the wrong version:
>
> $ dmd --version
> DMD64 D Compiler v2.068
> Copyright (c) 1999-2015 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright

It does work for me and the build seems fine as well.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/blob/c6f8648e56ca58e1cad65a441e2d765ca96f1da0/create_dmd_release/build_all.d#L345
What platform are you on?

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 17:51:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> What platform are you on?

I'm on OS X, using the homebrew version of DMD. And homebrew is telling me that I have 2.068.1 installed

$ brew install dmd
Warning: dmd-2.068.1 already installed

$ dmd --version
DMD64 D Compiler v2.068
Copyright (c) 1999-2015 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright

And if I check

$ which dmd
/usr/local/bin/dmd

Then if I check the link

/usr/local/bin/dmd -> ../Cellar/dmd/2.068.1/bin/dmd

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 20:14:45 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 17:51:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> What platform are you on?
>
> I'm on OS X, using the homebrew version of DMD. And homebrew is telling me that I have 2.068.1 installed
>
> $ brew install dmd
> Warning: dmd-2.068.1 already installed
>
> $ dmd --version
> DMD64 D Compiler v2.068
> Copyright (c) 1999-2015 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright
>
> And if I check
>
> $ which dmd
> /usr/local/bin/dmd
>
> Then if I check the link
>
> /usr/local/bin/dmd -> ../Cellar/dmd/2.068.1/bin/dmd

Yeah, I get this too. Same with 2.068.2-b2

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 20:14:45 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 17:51:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> What platform are you on?
>
> I'm on OS X, using the homebrew version of DMD. And homebrew is telling me that I have 2.068.1 installed

Well I guess it's a bug in the homebrew script then.
Nobody is setting the VERSION file and there is no git repo to query.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/f8b0ff3ef63e60a1da17ec8d8e68d949b1cebc27/Library/Formula/dmd.rb#L50

On 2015-09-10 19:46, Jack Stouffer wrote:

> Well, it's a little too late, but the compiler outputs the wrong version:
>
> $ dmd --version
> DMD64 D Compiler v2.068
> Copyright (c) 1999-2015 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright

Working fine here, installed using DVM.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 23:53:16 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 20:14:45 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 17:51:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>> What platform are you on?
>>
>> I'm on OS X, using the homebrew version of DMD. And homebrew is telling me that I have 2.068.1 installed
>
> Well I guess it's a bug in the homebrew script then.
> Nobody is setting the VERSION file and there is no git repo to query.
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/f8b0ff3ef63e60a1da17ec8d8e68d949b1cebc27/Library/Formula/dmd.rb#L50

Where is the VERSION file documented? Why does it need manual intervention only for patch releases and pre-releases?

Am Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:39:41 +0000
schrieb John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin@gmail.com>:

> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 23:53:16 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> > On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 20:14:45 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> >> On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 17:51:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> >>> What platform are you on?
> >>
> >> I'm on OS X, using the homebrew version of DMD. And homebrew is telling me that I have 2.068.1 installed
> >
> > Well I guess it's a bug in the homebrew script then.
> > Nobody is setting the VERSION file and there is no git repo to
> > query.
> > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/f8b0ff3ef63e60a1da17ec8d8e68d949b1cebc27/Library/Formula/dmd.rb#L50
> 
> Where is the VERSION file documented? Why does it need manual intervention only for patch releases and pre-releases?

I noticed this as well. There are different VERSION files
depending on where you download DMD source code from: The
releases on GitHub have 2.068 while the releases on dlang.org
have 2.068.1 in VERSION. That's easy to miss when you build
from source.
(Also the dlang.org downloads add to the DMD download
statistics, which is why I use those even though they
include extra binaries for all OSs.)

-- 
Marco

On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 08:39:43 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> Where is the VERSION file documented? Why does it need manual intervention only for patch releases and pre-releases?

We should prolly remove the manually updated VERSION file.
The other build scripts update the file or pass VERSION=bla to make.

On Wednesday, 16 September 2015 at 18:34:48 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 08:39:43 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> Where is the VERSION file documented? Why does it need manual intervention only for patch releases and pre-releases?
>
> We should prolly remove the manually updated VERSION file.
> The other build scripts update the file or pass VERSION=bla to make.

What would DMD identify itself as then, if a version is not specified on make's command line?

On 09/19/2015 07:51 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
> What would DMD identify itself as then, if a version is not specified on
> make's command line?

It could use the output of `git describe`.

That would probably be better anyway, because non-release builds would properly identify themselves as non-release builds with both the most recent tag name AND, if local HEAD isn't tagged, it will also include the git commit hash (and, IIRC, the number of commits since the most recent tag). *Much* better than having two months of master commits all identifying as the exact same version.

<shameless plug> gen-package-version[1] operates on exactly that strategy (which I learned about from dub's source).

[1] https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version