Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52 contributors.

This beta started a little later than planned because we had to solve a FreeBSD build issue (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9569#issuecomment-484017911). I'd still try to ship the release on May 1st unless we figure out that more time is needed to fix regressions.

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.086.0.html

As usual please report any bugs at
https://issues.dlang.org

-Martin

On 20.04.19 16:16, Martin Nowak wrote:
> As usual please report any bugs at
> https://issues.dlang.org

I'll point out that there's already a known regression:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19777

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:16:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52 contributors.
>
> This beta started a little later than planned because we had to solve a FreeBSD build issue (https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9569#issuecomment-484017911). I'd still try to ship the release on May 1st unless we figure out that more time is needed to fix regressions.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.086.0.html
>
> As usual please report any bugs at
> https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin

Thank you so much. The -lowmem switch finally enables usage of D in CloudFoundry (your application is usually compiled on CloudFoundry and you very likely have a limit of 1024 MB).

Also I currently try to convince the people from Codeingame to support D. They have a limit of 768 MB.

The import std; will also become quite handy for the Codeingame use case.

Kind regards
Andre

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:16:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52 contributors.

"DUB will no longer use OPTLINK as default on Windows" - finally! Best change.

On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 03:47:08PM +0000, Andre Pany via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
> Thank you so much. The -lowmem switch finally enables usage of D in CloudFoundry (your application is usually compiled on CloudFoundry and you very likely have a limit of 1024 MB).
[...]

Oh goodie!  Finally dmd will no longer be a laughing stock on low-memory machines. Very glad to hear of -lowmem.


T

-- 
Winners never quit, quitters never win. But those who never quit AND never win are idiots.

Wow! A whole bunch of great, long-awaited stuff! There's --lowmem, reflection of privates, less optlink, import std, copy ctors...

The changelog has some formatting errors in the section "dub run will now automatically fetch a package if it's not found locally".

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 18:00:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> Wow! A whole bunch of great, long-awaited stuff! There's --lowmem, reflection of privates, less optlink, import std, copy ctors...
>
> The changelog has some formatting errors in the section "dub run will now automatically fetch a package if it's not found locally".

Yes, very curious about this release!

Thanks a lot for -lowmem, copy ctor and DUB single request!

I don't understand full the new `dub init -t custom-dub-init-dubpackage` capabilities, the `custom-dub-init-dubpackage` has to be a package name on the DUB registry?

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 19:41:09 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 18:00:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>> Wow! A whole bunch of great, long-awaited stuff! There's --lowmem, reflection of privates, less optlink, import std, copy ctors...
>>
>> The changelog has some formatting errors in the section "dub run will now automatically fetch a package if it's not found locally".
>
> Yes, very curious about this release!
>
> Thanks a lot for -lowmem, copy ctor and DUB single request!
>
> I don't understand full the new `dub init -t custom-dub-init-dubpackage` capabilities, the `custom-dub-init-dubpackage` has to be a package name on the DUB registry?

Any dub package can now define a sub package init-exec which will be used to create an app skeleton. Just use the package name as argument -t in dub init command.


Kind regards
Andre

On 4/20/2019 7:16 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52
> contributors.

Martin, thank you for the invaluable but thankless job of managing the releases!

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 18:00:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
> The changelog has some formatting errors in the section "dub run will now automatically fetch a package if it's not found locally".

The $(CONSOLE) macro seems to not be able to handle `---` in its argument, which wrongly starts an example.

There is another formatting issue in the Copy Constructor section, where the nested $(OL) does not handle examples well, by which successive $(LI) appear in the top level list instead.

Bastiaan.