Short story about my attempt to put a bit more efforts in detecting user projects breakage by compiler changes:

http://blog.dicebot.lv/2014/12/making-sure-your-d-projects-wont-break.html

Quoting important bit:

"It is quite likely that only few of you will want to spend that much time to simply be able to report regressions in time. I'd still want to see much more healthy library ecosystem out there thus simple proposal - poke me via e-mail and I will gladly add any of you projects to the system I have already configured. There is a one requirement though : you must be willing to actually investigate found regressions and report them to bugzilla or workaround in your project. If that sounds OK to you, just let me know"

Ironically not a single of few projects I have tried adding currently compiles with a dmd git master - will add more as issues get resolved.

On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 05:51:56 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Short story about my attempt to put a bit more efforts in detecting user projects breakage by compiler changes:
>
> http://blog.dicebot.lv/2014/12/making-sure-your-d-projects-wont-break.html
>
> Quoting important bit:
>
> "It is quite likely that only few of you will want to spend that much time to simply be able to report regressions in time. I'd still want to see much more healthy library ecosystem out there thus simple proposal - poke me via e-mail and I will gladly add any of you projects to the system I have already configured. There is a one requirement though : you must be willing to actually investigate found regressions and report them to bugzilla or workaround in your project. If that sounds OK to you, just let me know"
>
> Ironically not a single of few projects I have tried adding currently compiles with a dmd git master - will add more as issues get resolved.

Thanks very much for this, it's a very valuable piece of work.

I'd be very happy if you were to add
https://github.com/WebDrake/Dgraph
https://github.com/WebDrake/hap

to your testing list.  I've just tried them out with latest git-master dmd and pushed appropriate fixes (Dgraph had some arrays declared C-style, hap.random had some typetuple import failures).

On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 01:40:05 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Thanks very much for this, it's a very valuable piece of work.
>
> I'd be very happy if you were to add
> https://github.com/WebDrake/Dgraph
> https://github.com/WebDrake/hap
>
> to your testing list.  I've just tried them out with latest git-master dmd and pushed appropriate fixes (Dgraph had some arrays declared C-style, hap.random had some typetuple import failures).

Done. Send me an e-mail to public@dicebot.lv with your e-mail to put for build failure notifications

On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 05:51:56 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Ironically not a single of few projects I have tried adding currently compiles with a dmd git master - will add more as issues get resolved.

Well, that nudged me to get some fixes done, at least :-)

I'd like to reiterate my thanks for what I think will be a really key bit of work in providing rigorous quality assurance for D.  It's something that I've wanted to see for a long time:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.47.1369319426.13711.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com

... but didn't have the time or expertise to address, so I'm really grateful you have stepped up to deliver this.

I'd really encourage other people with dub-compliant projects to sign up; let's leverage these testing opportunities to ensure both that our projects don't suffer bitrot, and that we have a good advance warning of any unintended (or intended!) breaking changes in the compiler and/or libraries.

In the longer run, it'd be great if this could become an official part of the D testing framework accessible from dlang.org.  It would also be really nice if we could have some sort of link between this system, and the project list on code.dlang.org: perhaps a traffic-light system where a project is marked green if it's compatible with current D release, amber if it works but triggers warnings, and red if it fails?

Whatever the future allows, thanks once again for being awesome :-)

On Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 00:14:18 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> In the longer run, it'd be great if this could become an official part of the D testing framework accessible from dlang.org.  It would also be really nice if we could have some sort of link between this system, and the project list on code.dlang.org: perhaps a traffic-light system where a project is marked green if it's compatible with current D release, amber if it works but triggers warnings, and red if it fails?

I had that idea in mind for quite some time now, at some point we have been discussing with Sonke what would it take to add such integration. But it is non-trivial effort to get it right and actually useful and I have never had opportunity to spend that much time in a single chunk since then.

Thus I decided to go with a more simple non-automated approach for now.