Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-27 Thread Idan Arye
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 21:56:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:48:15PM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 20:43:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: >That's something I never really understood about the Windows >/ GUI >world. The backend functionality is already

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-27 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:48:15PM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: > On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 20:43:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >That's something I never really understood about the Windows / GUI > >world. The backend functionality is already all there, yet for some > >strange reason the application re

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-27 Thread Idan Arye
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 20:43:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: That's something I never really understood about the Windows / GUI world. The backend functionality is already all there, yet for some strange reason the application refuses to have the means to access that functionality, requiring in

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-27 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 20:43:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: clip That's something I never really understood about the Windows / GUI world. The backend functionality is already all there, yet for some strange reason the application refuses to have the means to access that functionality, requ

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-27 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:20:59PM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: > On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 04:15:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >Anything else is just the formula for endless frustration, > >untraceable bugs, and project failure. If your IDE's build function > >doesn't support full end-to-end reproduci

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-27 Thread Idan Arye
On Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 04:15:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Anything else is just the formula for endless frustration, untraceable bugs, and project failure. If your IDE's build function doesn't support full end-to-end reproducible builds, it's worthless and should be thrown out. The IDE's

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-26 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:00:05AM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 23:40:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > >Stop right there. As soon as "manual" enters the picture, you no > >longer have a build process. You may have a *caricature* of a build > >process, but it's no build proc

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-26 Thread Idan Arye
On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 23:40:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Stop right there. As soon as "manual" enters the picture, you no longer have a build process. You may have a *caricature* of a build process, but it's no build process at all. I don't care if it's hitting F5 or running make, if I ca

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-26 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 01:07:19AM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 21:28:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] > >So we use makefiles... which are a royal PITA, but at least they give > >you a semblance of reproducibility (fresh version control checkout, > >run ./configure && make

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-26 Thread Idan Arye
On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 21:28:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:23:21PM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: I guess that depends whether or not F5 is your build process (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/the-f5-key-is-not-a-build-process.html). What's F5? In Eclipse, F5 i

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-26 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:23:21PM +0200, Idan Arye wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 12:17:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 08:55:04AM +0200, monarch_dodra wrote: > >>On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 06:46:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > >>wrote: > >>>On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 08:38:0

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-26 Thread Idan Arye
On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 12:17:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 08:55:04AM +0200, monarch_dodra wrote: On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 06:46:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 08:38:01 Marco Leise wrote: >>Am Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:45:26 -0700 >> >>schrieb A

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-25 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 08:55:04AM +0200, monarch_dodra wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 06:46:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > >On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 08:38:01 Marco Leise wrote: > >>Am Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:45:26 -0700 > >> > >>schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu : > >>> http://stackoverflow.com/qu

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-25 Thread monarch_dodra
On Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 06:46:28 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 08:38:01 Marco Leise wrote: Am Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:45:26 -0700 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu : > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-gith > ub-says-its-d > > Andrei Thi

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-24 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 08:38:01 Marco Leise wrote: > Am Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:45:26 -0700 > > schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu : > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-gith > > ub-says-its-d > > > > Andrei > > This is why you don't put automatically generated files

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-24 Thread Marco Leise
Am Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:45:26 -0700 schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu : > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-github-says-its-d > > Andrei This is why you don't put automatically generated files in version control ... Especially when they have the file ending used by a

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-24 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 6/24/13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-github-says-its-d This does show that Github's language popularity index is unreliable. It's listing D at #27th most popular language, but I wonder what that number would look like with

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-24 Thread Walter Bright
On 6/24/2013 8:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-github-says-its-d Obviously the best way for him to correct his repository is to get it to compile with a D compiler.

Re: Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-24 Thread Jonathan Dunlap
It's like D is getting free advertising ;) On Monday, 24 June 2013 at 15:45:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-github-says-its-d Andrei

Having a bit if fun on stackoverflow

2013-06-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17263604/i-have-a-c-repository-but-github-says-its-d Andrei