A further option: if you can't verify all platforms build, indicate what platform(s) you *did* build with.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 10:21:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553
> 
> 

----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu <
> ymailto="mailto:andrei at erdani.com"
> href="mailto:andrei at erdani.com">andrei at erdani.com>
> My epic saga
> of getting things to build hasn't ended. In fact
> my initial goal was
> just to build the html, but that uses wine, which in turn
> has a
> problem.

[snip]

> It's great to have so many people contribute to Phobos, but I've never had such a long streak of non-builds. It looks like new scale of contribution asks for corresponding responsibility. Please, make sure everything builds before checking in, and announce to this list if you broke the build and are unable to fix it without help.

I understand your frustration, but it might be
> unreasonable to ask people to ensure a build occurs properly on all OSes before checking in, this might not be practical (disclaimer: I haven't tried building the latest, maybe the build doesn't work anywhere :)

Another option is to
> use branches and merging, but dsource's SVN server is very outdated, and doesn't support the better merging capability that the latest version does.

Also,
> why wine is needed for any building of anything?  Is it even a supported platform?

-Steve

Yah, I'm not asking for walking on water. Most work is not heavily platform-dependent, but if you feel it is, point that out.

Math code turns out to be quite platform-dependent.


Andrei

On 05/25/2010 09:22 AM, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
> A further option: if you can't verify all platforms build, indicate what platform(s) you *did* build with.
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Steve Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com>
>> To: Discuss the phobos library for D<phobos at puremagic.com>
>> Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 10:21:34 AM
>> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553
>>
>>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Andrei Alexandrescu<
>> ymailto="mailto:andrei at erdani.com"
>> href="mailto:andrei at erdani.com">andrei at erdani.com>
>> My epic saga
>> of getting things to build hasn't ended. In fact
>> my initial goal was
>> just to build the html, but that uses wine, which in turn
>> has a
>> problem.
>
> [snip]
>
>> It's great to have so many people contribute
>> to Phobos,
>> but I've never had such a long streak of non-builds. It
>> looks like new scale of
>> contribution asks for corresponding
>> responsibility. Please, make sure everything
>> builds before checking in,
>> and announce to this list if you broke the build and
>> are unable to fix
>> it without help.
>
> I understand your frustration, but it might be
>> unreasonable to ask people to ensure a build occurs properly on all OSes before checking in, this might not be practical (disclaimer: I haven't tried building the latest, maybe the build doesn't work anywhere :)
>
> Another option is to
>> use branches and merging, but dsource's SVN server is very outdated, and doesn't support the better merging capability that the latest version does.
>
> Also,
>> why wine is needed for any building of anything?  Is it even a supported platform?
>
> -Steve
>
>
>
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Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Yah, I'm not asking for walking on water. Most work is not heavily platform-dependent, but if you feel it is, point that out.
>
> Math code turns out to be quite platform-dependent.
>

Not in this case.