On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 16:21:25 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 16:13:39 UTC, Seb wrote:
Motivation
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1) It's required for Walter's work on using -betterC for the
backend conversion:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6907
2) We start to run into random failures lately, e.g.
https://github.com/braddr/d-tester/issues/63
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7569#issuecomment-356992048
3) There's also WIP to move dmd-cxx to 2.076.1:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7595
So if we have to bump the minimal dmd version required to
build DMD anyways for (1), let's be clear about it and state
it.
Anyone objecting?
Yes! we cannot keep bumping the version of the compiler,
personally I find 2.072 rather steep!
really we should be able to build with 2.068.
FYI: There has never been an official bump to 2.072
You can still build dmd with 2.068 - that's the version
auto-tester uses.
However, I think you didn't understand my question.
We _will_ bump the minimal required version to compile DMD soon
(see [1]).
That being said, what's the point in wasting hours of hours
working around the bugs in 2.068.2 when we will do the bump one
month later anyways?
[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6907
