On 10/08/2015 11:36 AM, lobo wrote:
> 
> Is there any info on the benchmarking between DDMD and DMD?

Still on the todo list to decide whether we need to use gdc to build ddmd. https://trello.com/c/OT6jlFNa/85-rebench-ddmd-vs-dmd-compiler-speed

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 09:17:16 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 04:53:53 UTC, Suliman wrote:
>> Is it DDMD based release?
>
> Yes.

Are dmd 2.069b1 binaries compiled with dmd 2.069b1 or with dmd 2.068.2?

On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 22:33:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.069.0 release.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin

Am I being dumb or does SYSCONFDIR do absolutely nothing...

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 04:14:59 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
> Does that mean @property has no effect anymore ?

@property never actually worked anyway. It is still my hope that it will be correctly implemented some day though - the hard problem it was meant to solve is still there (returning delegates from properties, the other things are all minor stylistic things, but this is outright breakage).

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 09:36:31 UTC, lobo wrote:
> PS: Big thanks for the much improved release process that you guys are maintaining.

I agree. Thank you, Martin.

On Thursday 08 October 2015 06:14, extrawurst wrote:

> `The -property switch has been deprecated.` Does that mean @property has no effect anymore ?

Yes. I've made a pull request to mention that (and put a note on the spec page).

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1119

We should probably try to finally find good semantics for @property.

On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 22:33:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.069.0 release.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin

I think it should be mentioned in the change log the substantial improvements that were made to the docs since last release. After over 30 PRs were merged for improving the docs, they are WAY better than the 2.068 docs.

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 12:48:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 04:14:59 UTC, extrawurst wrote:
>> Does that mean @property has no effect anymore ?
>
> @property never actually worked anyway. It is still my hope that it will be correctly implemented some day though

I think http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP23 reflects the most accurate roadmap for @property, basically being permissive w.r.t. parens. And who really cares whether it's rng.popFront or rng.popFront()?

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 12:20:23 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> Are dmd 2.069b1 binaries compiled with dmd 2.069b1 or with dmd 2.068.2?

The last released compiler, we don't have any bootstrap method (using a small C++ compiler or so).

On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 15:01:31 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 October 2015 at 12:20:23 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>> Are dmd 2.069b1 binaries compiled with dmd 2.069b1 or with dmd 2.068.2?
>
> The last released compiler, we don't have any bootstrap method (using a small C++ compiler or so).

One does not exclude the other. You could still re-build 2.069b1 using itself.

 — David