Sean Kelly wrote:
Jason House wrote:
Over in D.anounce, the LDC devs said they would have an easier time
upgrading to newer dmd (fe) versions if the source was in source
control. Even if Walter is the only one with write access, it's still
be helpful. It's helpful for more than just the LDC folks; that's just
the most recent example.
It would be nice to have DMD in version control, but I don't buy the LDC
argument. It's trivial to diff one release against another, regardless
of whether version control is involved.
It's probably just easier what a change is for[1] if it's small and
self-contained, with a description (commit message) of what it's supposed to do.
But that's just a guess, you'd have to ask Thomas Lindquist since he's the one
that usually merges new frontend versions.
[1]: And thus what to do in case of conflicts, as well as what may need to
change in the backend (if anything).
