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ZombineDev <petar.p.kirov@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from ZombineDev <petar.p.kirov@gmail.com> ---
This was changed in https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6935.

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--- Comment #2 from Jonathan M Davis <issues.dlang@jmdavisProg.com> ---
(In reply to ZombineDev from comment #1)
> This was changed in https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6935.

Drat. Well, I can't say that I understand how all of that stuff with the release process works and how dmd knows what its version is, but the fact that __VERSION__ for master is not a higher number than the latest release is a definite problem for any code that needs to do something differently with master due to upcoming changes or whatnot. I ran into this problem recently when making some changes to vibe.d.

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--- Comment #3 from ZombineDev <petar.p.kirov@gmail.com> ---
I agree that it's quite annoying. Perhaps we can add another predefined constant like __IS_DEV_VERSION__ which would evaluate to true iff the ddmd.globals.global._version has any non-digit character after the minor version (or simply if its length is > 8)?

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--- Comment #4 from Jonathan M Davis <issues.dlang@jmdavisProg.com> ---
(In reply to ZombineDev from comment #3)
> I agree that it's quite annoying. Perhaps we can add another predefined constant like __IS_DEV_VERSION__ which would evaluate to true iff the ddmd.globals.global._version has any non-digit character after the minor version (or simply if its length is > 8)?

The problem with that is that then you're testing specifically for dmd master not that the code is newer than a particular release. If a change is made in dmd master that's going to go in the next release, and __VERSION__ in dmd master is the version of the next release, then you can check __VERSION__, and the code will continue to do the right thing once dmd master becomes the next release, but if you're checking __IS_DEV_VERSION__, then that doesn't work. You'd have to change your code to use __VERSION__ once the next release is out.

While I can understand that with however the version numbers are currently being generated, there may be issues having __VERSION__ be the number of the next release in master rather than the current reelase, I really think that if you consider what __VERSION__ is for, it really doesn't make sense for it to give the same number as the most recent release for master. That destroys its ability to be used for what it's designed for when dmd master is involved.

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greenify <greeenify@gmail.com> changed:

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hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx changed:

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from dlangBugzillaToGithub <robert.schadek@posteo.de> ---
THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/19309

DO NOT COMMENT HERE ANYMORE, NOBODY WILL SEE IT, THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB

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