Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-12-04 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 18:58:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 21:25:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-12-03 Thread Jon D via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 18:58:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 21:25:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-12-01 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 21:25:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor Due to a realization that there were three places were contributing

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-22 Thread ted via Digitalmars-d
I confess to being a bit confused overall - there is a bit of overlap and confusion for someone who wishes to venture into this area. Please bear with me: From wiki.dlang.org - 'Get involved'. So far so good. From here, I can go to 'Building DMD' and 'How to Fork and Build dlang.org', which

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-22 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday 22 August 2015 11:05, ted wrote: From here, I can go to 'Building DMD' and 'How to Fork and Build dlang.org', which both seem to build DMD - I'm unsure of the overlap aspects here. The 'dlang.org' project is the website. It deals with building dmd only insofar as you need a

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-22 Thread ted via Digitalmars-d
cheers for that - that differentiation/distinction wasn't clear (to me). anonymous wrote: On Saturday 22 August 2015 11:05, ted wrote: From here, I can go to 'Building DMD' and 'How to Fork and Build dlang.org', which both seem to build DMD - I'm unsure of the overlap aspects here. The

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-05 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 4 August 2015 at 19:56:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 03/08/15 23:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor Along the way I also hit a

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 05/08/15 13:28, Gary Willoughby wrote: Ther are already articles covering this: http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD http://wiki.dlang.org/Pull_Requests My point was that I think it should not be on the wiki, instead it should be on dlang.org, clearly visible. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-05 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 17:27:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 05/08/15 13:28, Gary Willoughby wrote: Ther are already articles covering this: http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD http://wiki.dlang.org/Pull_Requests My point was that I think it should not be on the wiki, instead it

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 8/4/15 8:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/4/15 1:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am trying this now. I've already hit a problem. The wiki makes it sound like the bootstrapping is optional. As I already have dmd 2.067, I skipped that stepped and failed when making druntime as it apparently

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-04 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 22:30:23 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I also deleted all the binaries/libraries under bin/os directory, and use symlinks to the built files from their appropriate source directories. This way I can test changes without having to create a new installation

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 8/4/15 1:35 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I am trying this now. I've already hit a problem. The wiki makes it sound like the bootstrapping is optional. As I already have dmd 2.067, I skipped that stepped and failed when making druntime as it apparently assumes the bootstrapped dmd: Yah, druntime

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-04 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 08/04/2015 07:02 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: a whole section on Typical Contributor Workflow. -- Andrei In case there are others that don't know, git co in that section is an alias to git checkout: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14489109/how-to-alias-git-checkout-to-git-co Ali

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 8/4/15 11:42 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 08/04/2015 07:02 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: a whole section on Typical Contributor Workflow. -- Andrei In case there are others that don't know, git co in that section is an alias to git checkout:

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-04 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 03/08/15 23:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor Along the way I also hit a small snag and fixed it at

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-03 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 8/3/15 5:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor You should make sure there's no overlap with this: http://wiki.dlang.org/Get_involved I

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-03 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d
On 04-Aug-2015 01:30, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 8/3/15 5:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor You should make sure there's no overlap

Re: Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-03 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 08/03/2015 02:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor Along the way I also hit a small snag and fixed it at

Wiki article: Starting as a Contributor

2015-08-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
I had to set up dmd and friends on a fresh Ubuntu box, so I thought I'd document the step-by-step process: http://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor Along the way I also hit a small snag and fixed it at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1049 Further improvements