On Mar 6, 2013 1:18 PM, "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 6, 2013 12:51 PM, "Minas Mina" <minas_mina1990@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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> > A big problem is that GDC and LDC in the distros are not up to date. GDC was 2.058 I think. This has forced me to use dmd even for my final code (I don't want to get in the trouble of building them by source, this is ancient).
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> One of the benefits of the merger would be that this would be a part non-issue anymore, as all distros will (or should) ship gdc.
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> However what won't happen is frontend updates following a release of gdc. So eg: one release will come with 2.062 frontend, and 10 months later the next release will come with 2.068, or whatever happens to be the current at the time.
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This also might be a time to re-address the minor release scheme that has been discussed in the past (eg: 2.062.1, 2.062.2, etc).   Rather than focus on maintaining a tree for each release of the D frontend implementation, we pick a common release that gdc/ldc is shipped with, and pull in bug fixes from main development and later releases.  When the shipped versions of gdc/ldc get updated, we then start the process over from that new common release (again, eg: 2.068) and start maintaining minor releases for that (2.068.1, etc).

Regards
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Iain Buclaw

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