http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip

On 7 December 2011 10:56, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip

There's a formatting problem with changelog, but the content looks good. Regressions 6881 and 7027 are still open.

On 12/7/2011 4:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
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The issue I was having getting SciD to build is, of course, gone, but now I have a new one.  I'm not sure if it's a latent bug in SciD or a DMD regression, but I've got DustMite chugging away on it.  I learned my lesson last night:  DustMite actually isn't hard to use and you don't want to hand-reduce SciD because you'll be chasing long chains of template instantiations.

From: "David Simcha" <dsimcha at gmail.com>
> On 12/7/2011 4:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip
>> _______________________________________________
>> dmd-beta mailing list
>> dmd-beta at puremagic.com
>> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
>>
> The issue I was having getting SciD to build is, of course, gone, but now I have a new one.  I'm not sure if it's a latent bug in SciD or a DMD regression, but I've got DustMite chugging away on it.  I learned my lesson last night:  DustMite actually isn't hard to use and you don't want to hand-reduce SciD because you'll be chasing long chains of template instantiations.

Yup, DustMite is fantastic. It deserves to be a headling feature of D. It does sound intimidating at first, but then you read the docs and find it's dead simple to use.

Ok, I don't think the issue I was working on is a DMD regression anymore.  I think the problem is that the SciD code should have never worked in the first place.  Maybe there was a latent bug in 2.056. Therefore, I'm giving my green light for a release.

On 12/8/2011 1:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> From: "David Simcha" <dsimcha at gmail.com>
>> On 12/7/2011 4:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> dmd-beta mailing list
>>> dmd-beta at puremagic.com
>>> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
>>>
>> The issue I was having getting SciD to build is, of course, gone, but now I have a new one.  I'm not sure if it's a latent bug in SciD or a DMD regression, but I've got DustMite chugging away on it.  I learned my lesson last night:  DustMite actually isn't hard to use and you don't want to hand-reduce SciD because you'll be chasing long chains of template instantiations.
>
> Yup, DustMite is fantastic. It deserves to be a headling feature of D. It does sound intimidating at first, but then you read the docs and find it's dead simple to use.
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
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On 12/8/2011 1:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> From: "David Simcha" <dsimcha at gmail.com>
>> On 12/7/2011 4:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> dmd-beta mailing list
>>> dmd-beta at puremagic.com
>>> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
>>>
>> The issue I was having getting SciD to build is, of course, gone, but now I have a new one.  I'm not sure if it's a latent bug in SciD or a DMD regression, but I've got DustMite chugging away on it.  I learned my lesson last night:  DustMite actually isn't hard to use and you don't want to hand-reduce SciD because you'll be chasing long chains of template instantiations.
>
> Yup, DustMite is fantastic. It deserves to be a headling feature of D. It does sound intimidating at first, but then you read the docs and find it's dead simple to use.
>
> _______________________________________________
> dmd-beta mailing list
> dmd-beta at puremagic.com
> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
>

On looking at this further, I can see how it worked in the first place. Dustmite dropped the ball because it reproduced the error, but for the wrong reason.  Maybe it is a regression.  I'll try harder to reproduce it tonight.

Sorry for the ridiculous number of messages.  I keep thinking I'm going to go do something other than work on this bug, and then having new insights. I've figured out that the SciD issues are definitely NOT issues with 2.057.  SciD was actually inadvertently relying on a bug that got FIXED. I'm go for a release.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:45 AM, David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/8/2011 1:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> From: "David Simcha" <dsimcha at gmail.com>
>>
>>> On 12/7/2011 4:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/**dmd2beta.zip<http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip>
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>>>> http://lists.puremagic.com/**mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta<http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta>
>>>>
>>>>  The issue I was having getting SciD to build is, of course, gone, but
>>> now I have a new one.  I'm not sure if it's a latent bug in SciD or a DMD regression, but I've got DustMite chugging away on it.  I learned my lesson last night:  DustMite actually isn't hard to use and you don't want to hand-reduce SciD because you'll be chasing long chains of template instantiations.
>>>
>>
>> Yup, DustMite is fantastic. It deserves to be a headling feature of D. It does sound intimidating at first, but then you read the docs and find it's dead simple to use.
>>
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> dmd-beta mailing list
>> dmd-beta at puremagic.com
>> http://lists.puremagic.com/**mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta<http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta>
>>
>>
> On looking at this further, I can see how it worked in the first place.
>  Dustmite dropped the ball because it reproduced the error, but for the
> wrong reason.  Maybe it is a regression.  I'll try harder to reproduce it
> tonight.
>
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On 12/8/2011 8:09 AM, David Simcha wrote:
> Sorry for the ridiculous number of messages.  I keep thinking I'm going to go do something other than work on this bug, and then having new insights.  I've figured out that the SciD issues are definitely NOT issues with 2.057.  SciD was actually inadvertently relying on a bug that got FIXED.  I'm go for a release.
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