Re: good form? posting semi D-related part-time contract job to announce?

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 01:05:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Hi. Just to check if it's good form. I'm looking for someone to help (initially) part-time with linux server admin. Happy if scripts are written in D and it's for a project where most code is in D. Is it okay to post to

Re: Hotfix release vibe.d 0.7.28

Am 29.02.2016 um 00:47 schrieb sigod: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 16:21:05 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This is a small bugfix release that mainly fixes two critical regressions: - FreeListRef!T, which is used heavily in the HTTP server code, stored its reference count in an unallocated

Re: State of the Compiler

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 04:53:16 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 00:10:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: 12. start retrofitting with phobos algorithms Other DMD devs have taken a hard line stance that Phobos code cannot and should not be used in ddmd. What's your

Re: State of the Compiler

On 2016-02-29 05:57, Walter Bright wrote: There are good reasons for that. But there's no reason why std.algorithm.sort, for example, cannot still be used (cut & paste). Unfortunately Phobos has quite a complex dependency graph. Pulling in std.algorithm.sort will most likely pull in half of

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

On 2016-02-28 22:03, Chris Wright wrote: Or like there's a global counter that is incremented for each unittest. A different order of traversal of unittests would result in a different mangled name for the same unittest in different runs. The question is why it would be different. Here's a

Re: A suggestion for dub

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 05:59:56 UTC, mahdi wrote: On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 05:16:50 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 04:46:13 UTC, mahdi wrote: [...] A neat feature would be to deploy it using the github releases feature. There is an API for it:

Re: A suggestion for dub

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 04:46:13 +, mahdi wrote: > I just want to get some feedback to see if this is a good idea or no. > > I propose adding a new command to dub (`dub dist` or `dub package`) > which will produce a zipped version of the current package. This zip > file can be uploaded to a

Re: Terminix 0.51.0 Released

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 22:33:23 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: Great work. Thanks Mike, coming from you that's a real compliment. I really appreciate all your work on GtkD and the support you've given me in answering questions and dealing with issues.

Re: A suggestion for dub

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 05:16:50 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 04:46:13 UTC, mahdi wrote: I just want to get some feedback to see if this is a good idea or no. I propose adding a new command to dub (`dub dist` or `dub package`) which will produce a zipped

Re: good form? posting semi D-related part-time contract job to announce?

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 01:52:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/28/2016 5:05 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Hi. Just to check if it's good form. I'm looking for someone to help (initially) part-time with linux server admin. Happy if scripts are written in D and it's for a project where

Re: A suggestion for dub

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 04:46:13 UTC, mahdi wrote: I just want to get some feedback to see if this is a good idea or no. I propose adding a new command to dub (`dub dist` or `dub package`) which will produce a zipped version of the current package. This zip file can be uploaded to a

Re: State of the Compiler

On 2/28/2016 8:53 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 00:10:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: 12. start retrofitting with phobos algorithms Other DMD devs have taken a hard line stance that Phobos code cannot and should not be used in ddmd. What's your opinion on that? There

Re: A suggestion for dub

On 29/02/16 5:46 PM, mahdi wrote: I just want to get some feedback to see if this is a good idea or no. I propose adding a new command to dub (`dub dist` or `dub package`) which will produce a zipped version of the current package. This zip file can be uploaded to a central repository

Re: State of the Compiler

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 00:10:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: 12. start retrofitting with phobos algorithms Other DMD devs have taken a hard line stance that Phobos code cannot and should not be used in ddmd. What's your opinion on that?

A suggestion for dub

I just want to get some feedback to see if this is a good idea or no. I propose adding a new command to dub (`dub dist` or `dub package`) which will produce a zipped version of the current package. This zip file can be uploaded to a central repository (code.dlang.com maybe), and others can

Re: State of the Compiler

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:13:28 +1300, Rikki Cattermole wrote: > I have to suggest this, but how much work do you believe it would take > to switch over to sdc's frontend instead? (Keeping in mind it isn't > compiling much right now). Not impossible, just difficult. The first step is to catch SDC

Re: State of the Compiler

On 29/02/16 1:10 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'm pretty unhappy with the state of dmd. I think the best that can be said for it at the moment is that it works. 1. every time we fix something, there are unexpected regressions. 2. the code is a hopeless tangle. 3. too much global state (like

Re: good form? posting semi D-related part-time contract job to announce?

On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 01:05:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Hi. Just to check if it's good form. I'm looking for someone to help (initially) part-time with linux server admin. Happy if scripts are written in D and it's for a project where most code is in D. Is it okay to post to

Re: good form? posting semi D-related part-time contract job to announce?

On 2/28/2016 5:05 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Hi. Just to check if it's good form. I'm looking for someone to help (initially) part-time with linux server admin. Happy if scripts are written in D and it's for a project where most code is in D. Is it okay to post to announce? Laeeth. For the

good form? posting semi D-related part-time contract job to announce?

Hi. Just to check if it's good form. I'm looking for someone to help (initially) part-time with linux server admin. Happy if scripts are written in D and it's for a project where most code is in D. Is it okay to post to announce? Laeeth.

[Issue 15735] std.algorithm.iteration.splitter returns empty range

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15735 --- Comment #1 from Dragos Carp --- Fixed with https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/4030 --

State of the Compiler

I'm pretty unhappy with the state of dmd. I think the best that can be said for it at the moment is that it works. 1. every time we fix something, there are unexpected regressions. 2. the code is a hopeless tangle. 3. too much global state (like global.errors, which is itself a source of

Re: [WIP] Native SQLite Database reader (works at CTFE)

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 01:55:50 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 01:45:48 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Great project, Stefan. Any idea what kind of maximum database size will be feasible ? I realise it is early days so far and not your main focus. Laeeth The

Re: Hotfix release vibe.d 0.7.28

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 16:21:05 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This is a small bugfix release that mainly fixes two critical regressions: - FreeListRef!T, which is used heavily in the HTTP server code, stored its reference count in an unallocated memory region, leading to

Re: Cannot link using DMD nightly

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 22:16:39 UTC, Rene Zwanenburg wrote: On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 19:02:21 UTC, Matt Elkins wrote: Any suggestions? I don't know how to fix that error, but 2.070.1 has been released and contains a fix for your issue: http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.1.html

Re: Official compiler

On 2/28/2016 1:35 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote: Surely with Fibers everything would be deterministic though? I don't see the point of fibers if: 1. they are running on the same core 2. none of them do any waiting, such as waiting on I/O requests The only I/O a compiler does is

[Issue 15735] New: std.algorithm.iteration.splitter returns empty range

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15735 Issue ID: 15735 Summary: std.algorithm.iteration.splitter returns empty range Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: major

Re: Installing DUB on OSX

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 11:06:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-02-28 04:33, Joel wrote: Things just silently not work. Joels-MacBook-Pro:packages joelcnz$ ls -l -a ~/ | grep dub drwxr-xr-x4 joelcnz staff 136 26 Sep 12:47 .dub Joels-MacBook-Pro:packages joelcnz$ That

Re: VisualD/cv2pdb doesn't display AA's properly in the watch window.

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 23:01:24 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: On 18.02.2016 01:36, Lewis wrote: Test code (in a newly created project): import std.stdio; int main(string[] argv) { writeln("Hello Blah!"); string[string] testAA = null; testAA["test1"] = "Hello";

Re: Terminix 0.51.0 Released

On 02/28/2016 12:13 AM, Gerald wrote: Terminix is a tiling Linux terminal emulator I've been working on designed for the Gnome 3 environment and using GtkD. This newest release fixes a number of bugs and adds some new features. I'm announcing it here primarily for D programmers interested in

Re: Official compiler

On 02/28/2016 11:15 AM, Márcio Martins wrote: There is no reason why it should be limited to these forums, is there? Such a survey should be fairly more "realistic" and "representative" than feelings, emotions and anecdotal evidence. I think it would be interesting and useful to know what is

Re: Cannot link using DMD nightly

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 19:02:21 UTC, Matt Elkins wrote: Any suggestions? I don't know how to fix that error, but 2.070.1 has been released and contains a fix for your issue: http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.1.html

Re: scone 0.1.0 super-alpha

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 20:49:19 UTC, asdf wrote: [...] The 7-Day Roguelike Challenge is coming up. http://7drl.org/2016/01/13/7drl-2016-announced-for-5-13-march/ Maybe someone could use this. As of now it would only work for Windows. However, thanks for notifying me!

[Issue 15734] New: Need this for map

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15734 Issue ID: 15734 Summary: Need this for map Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: regression Priority: P1

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:23:59 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2016-02-27 04:51, Walter Bright wrote: > >> It uses a sequence number to generate different ids for the unit tests. >> In the former, it's the 531st unit test, the latter, the first. > > It sounds like the compiler is seeing

Re: scone 0.1.0 super-alpha

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 17:50:38 UTC, Vladimirs Nordholm wrote: Scone (Simple CONsole Engine) is a small library to make it easier for developers to make CLI applications efficiently (intentionally/originally for console games), cross-platform. (Please note that it is not fully

Re: nanomsg for Deimos collection

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 15:48:53 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: Hi all, D interface to nanomsg library http://nanomsg.org/ was released. This bindings follows Deimos style. 90% of tests was ported to D. github: https://github.com/9il/nanomsg dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/nanomsg

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

On 2016-02-27 04:51, Walter Bright wrote: It uses a sequence number to generate different ids for the unit tests. In the former, it's the 531st unit test, the latter, the first. It sounds like the compiler is seeing different unit tests during the different compilation. But why is that the

Re: nanomsg for Deimos collection

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 19:21:04 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-02-27 16:48, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: BTW, what should I do to include it to Deimos collection? https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos I don't see a point in doing that. Just make sure it's put in the correct category

Re: nanomsg for Deimos collection

On 2016-02-27 16:48, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: BTW, what should I do to include it to Deimos collection? https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos I don't see a point in doing that. Just make sure it's put in the correct category at code.dlang.org. -- /Jacob Carlborg

[Issue 14327] Unhandled exception from writeln() in C++/D application

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14327 --- Comment #18 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/de2788d911129545531e0e42d1c8630b3f406e7c Merge pull

[Issue 15430] [REG2.069] amdMmx hangs up

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15430 --- Comment #3 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/97d3999a4f3ab3c8409060bc6bb381fcc2a43c54 fix Issue 15430 -

[Issue 15334] [REG 2.069] OS X core.time ticksPerSecond calculation is incorrect

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15334 --- Comment #3 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/fdad9f502dc3a5cac0bac0cfa7d55fc4b7c273b5 Merge pull request

Cannot link using DMD nightly

I'm attempting to use the DMD nightly build (because this fix matters a lot to my project: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15661), but the build fails at the link step. Here is my full output: [output] "C:\Program Files (x86)\dub\dub.exe" run --force --build debug --build-mode

Re: Clojure vs. D in creating immutable lists that are almost the same.

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 22:31:28 UTC, Brother Bill wrote: Clojure supports immutable lists that allow adding and removing elements, and yet still have excellent performance. For D language, what are the recommended techniques to use functional programming, without massive copying of

scone 0.1.0 super-alpha

Once upon a time, in a repository long deleted, there was a project called "clayers" which was a programmers summer project, in which to create an easy way to make games that relied on the console. The repo start of nicely, but after more and more developing the project started to get messier

Re: Clojure vs. D in creating immutable lists that are almost the same.

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:31:28 +, Brother Bill wrote: > Clojure supports immutable lists that allow adding and removing > elements, and yet still have excellent performance. > > For D language, what are the recommended techniques to use functional > programming, without massive copying of data

Re: Official compiler

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 15:02:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 13:31:17 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Could we maybe create a quick informative survey, (surveymonkey?), so we can get a glimpse of why people like D and what they believe would improve their

Re: Official compiler

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 12:59:01 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: Should LLVM move to an Apache License would that help in migrating to an LLVM backend as the standard backend? Regards Dibyendu LLVM is great but you wouldn't want to be locked down to only one backend, probably. LLVM

Re: Normal distribution

On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 14:01:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Do we have a good quality converter of uniform numbers to Gaussian-distributed numbers around? -- Andrei Forth Engineering Practice™ is to add a few uniform distributions together... http://www.colorforth.com/e-x2.htm

Re: Terminix 0.51.0 Released

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 23:13:47 UTC, Gerald wrote: Terminix is a tiling Linux terminal emulator I've been working on designed for the Gnome 3 environment and using GtkD. This newest release fixes a number of bugs and adds some new features. I'm announcing it here primarily for D

Re: Release D 2.070.1

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 20:07:04 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.070.1. http://dlang.org/download.html This point release fixes a few issues over 2.070.1, see the changelog for more details. http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.1.html -Martin Thanks!

Re: nanomsg for Deimos collection

On 02/27/2016 04:48 PM, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: > Hi all, > > D interface to nanomsg library http://nanomsg.org/ was released. This > bindings follows Deimos style. 90% of tests was ported to D. > > github: https://github.com/9il/nanomsg > dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/nanomsg > > BTW,

Re: Official compiler

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 15:02:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Such a survey wouldn't be anywhere near "realistic." The number and types of users who regularly keep up with the forums are highly unlikely to be a representative sample of D users. Not to mention that only a fraction of

Re: Official compiler

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 13:31:17 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Could we maybe create a quick informative survey, (surveymonkey?), so we can get a glimpse of why people like D and what they believe would improve their experience with the language? Perhaps also why they have chosen to or

Re: ErrnoException

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 13:10:20 UTC, Jirka wrote: I have a question about ErrnoException. When I throw it (throw new ErrnoException()), won't it overwrite the errno value before it can capture it? Its constructor [1] simply fetches the current errno and gets an error message from it.

Re: Normal distribution

On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 20:15:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/26/16 2:32 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Yup. The basic problem of getting this stuff into phobos are the architectural problems discussed in that talk. Unlike uniform distribution (which is straightforward to

Re: Official compiler

On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 01:53:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/17/2016 4:35 PM, Chris Wright wrote: And since DMD is something like twice as fast as LDC, there's at least some argument in favor of keeping it around. When I meet someone new who says they settled on D in their

ErrnoException

I have a question about ErrnoException. When I throw it (throw new ErrnoException()), won't it overwrite the errno value before it can capture it?

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 12:59:53 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 11:31:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 11:27:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/27/2016 1:12 AM, Atila Neves wrote: I've had similar problems in the past with template mixins.

Re: Why is mangling different for separate compilation?

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 11:31:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 11:27:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/27/2016 1:12 AM, Atila Neves wrote: I've had similar problems in the past with template mixins. It seems D's compile-time features don't mix with any kind of

Re: Official compiler

On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 22:20:09 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I am referring to this thread: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/091536.html Thanks for the pointer. If anyone wants to chip in on that thread, feel free! Hi Walter, Should LLVM move to an Apache License

[Issue 15590] 0 coverage should be ignored in __ctfe branches

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15590 b2.t...@gmx.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|RESOLVED|REOPENED Resolution|INVALID

[Issue 15590] 0 coverage should be ignored in __ctfe branches

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15590 b2.t...@gmx.com changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|---

Re: SQLite-D alpha is here

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 16:08:21 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Hello, I am happy to announce the official alpha version of sqlite-d! sqlite-d is a reader for the SQLite File Format 3. In the future I will implement a SQL-like API on top of it. Top-notch performance is one of the explicit

Re: Is DUB the best place to get examples of "Best of" D code?

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 05:59:39 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote: If so, is there a way to do a global search of all projects in DUB? If you just want to search through package names and descriptions you can use the search box at the top right of code.dlang.org. If you want to search

Re: Installing DUB on OSX

On 2016-02-28 04:33, Joel wrote: Things just silently not work. Joels-MacBook-Pro:packages joelcnz$ ls -l -a ~/ | grep dub drwxr-xr-x4 joelcnz staff 136 26 Sep 12:47 .dub Joels-MacBook-Pro:packages joelcnz$ That looks correct. If you don't get any error message it's very hard to

[Issue 15730] invalid template merging in tuple foreach

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15730 Ketmar Dark changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

Re: Clojure vs. D in creating immutable lists that are almost the same.

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 22:31:28 UTC, Brother Bill wrote: That is, how to create one-off changes to an immutable data structure, while keeping the original immutable, as well as the one-off change, and maintain good performance. Clojure uses bit-partitioned hash tries. I

Re: Hotfix release vibe.d 0.7.28

Am 28.02.2016 um 02:51 schrieb Sebastiaan Koppe: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 16:21:05 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This is a small bugfix release that mainly fixes two critical regessions Great. Thanks for the quick release! Thanks for taking the time to do an in-depth analysis!

[Issue 15596] strip with delimiter?

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15596 --- Comment #6 from ag0ae...@gmail.com --- (In reply to ag0aep6g from comment #5) > (In reply to b2.temp from comment #4) > > Maybe a note in the std.string doc: "see also: for more generic strip > > funcyion..." > > Already there: "There is a rich

[Issue 15596] strip with delimiter?

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15596 ag0ae...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC||ag0ae...@gmail.com --- Comment #5 from

Re: Clojure vs. D in creating immutable lists that are almost the same.

On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 23:19:51 UTC, w0rp wrote: On Saturday, 27 February 2016 at 22:31:28 UTC, Brother Bill wrote: Clojure supports immutable lists that allow adding and removing elements, and yet still have excellent performance. For D language, what are the recommended techniques

Re: Official compiler

On 27 February 2016 at 23:30, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: On 2/27/2016 12:05 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: > >> On 26.02.2016 23:41, Walter Bright wrote: >> >>> On 2/26/2016 1:10 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: >>> Different passes are not really required once