https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21053

--- Comment #7 from Walter Bright <bugzi...@digitalmars.com> ---
(In reply to moonlightsentinel from comment #6)
> That statement is just blatantly wrong.

The list of its imports, and the imports of those imports, doesn't leave out
much. It would be nigh impossible to attempt to run that as the first program
when porting to a new architecture.

> Because one would need to install it on the auto-tester machines to which 
> only one person (Brad?) has access AFAICT. Otherwise we would have to 
> download a release which could fail spuriosly as well.

I suggest using whatever bootstrap compiler is installed on it. There's no
particular reason it should require the latest features and phobos. If the same
compiler is used to build it, it shouldn't suddenly stop working.

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