On 5/12/15 10:32 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
But either I am mistaken, or in future years you shall still face a choice between manually hacking up Phobos and DMD so they compile under this last C++-based dmd (a gulf which will widen increasingly) or you need to iteratively build compilers to cross the multiple-version bridges where changes to the source of dmd+phobos mean that they no longer compile with the last but one version.
Yah, that's a classic. Usually multi-stage bootstrapping is used. One simpler way to accelerate that is to just download the last version's binaries (which is what https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4645 does). -- Andrei
