On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:12:47 -0400, The Anh Tran wrote:
>
> The whole 1.0 branch is supposed to be stable (meaning, no new features only bug fixes).  There have been releases that were unusable due to obscure introduced bugs, but there are definitely more recent versions than 1.030 that were usable.  I use 1.038 at the moment.

I don't know why there's a 'stable' version either.  The newer versions are usually more stable (fewer bugs).

> I have no idea why 1.030 is annointed the stable version.

Worse, which version is "stable" is inconsistent.  On the D1 changelog, it has a link to download the latest stable compiler, marked as 1.020.

There is a problem with debug symbols, namely source file paths, generated by DMD on OS X. It seems that gdb cannot find any source files when debugging a program compiled with DMD's -g (or -gc) switch, with a "no source file named [whatever]" error, so setting breakpoints is impossible. GDC on OS X does not have this problem. Some googling around has led me to discover that GNU gcc on linux (not Apple gcc) also had this problem a few releases ago until it was patched, caused by something to do with the pathnames used in the debug symbols it generated, though I'm not sure of the technical details.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2741

Walter Bright wrote:
> dsimcha wrote:
>> Purely out of curiosity, with regard to the DMD source, what changed that all of
>> the sudden caused you to release the full source?
> 
> I've been intending to for a while, it took a while for me to clean it up, check all the licenses, and get it into a presentable form.
> 
> Essentially, it's pretty obvious that the world has changed, and closed source is no longer acceptable for a mainstream product that people will be relying on. Open source is the future, and it's past time for dmd to join the party!


Thanks Walter, I think that is a big step forward.

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Bruno Medeiros