Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday 11 July 2011 15:31:11 Daniel Murphy wrote: > "Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message > news:mailman.1523.1310360242.14074.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... > > > *Sigh* I really need to kill the shortcut in my e-mail client for > > sending > > messages. I was about to say that an impl

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Daniel Murphy
"Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message news:mailman.1523.1310360242.14074.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... > *Sigh* I really need to kill the shortcut in my e-mail client for sending > messages. I was about to say that an implementation of > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5481

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Daniel Murphy
"Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message news:mailman.1522.1310360091.14074.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... > With that implemented, it would fix the problem for functions, but I'm not > sure > that it would fix the problem for modules. That would depend on how it was > implemented. As it st

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Sunday 10 July 2011 21:54:42 Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Monday 11 July 2011 14:26:32 Daniel Murphy wrote: > > "Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message > > news:mailman.1520.1310357559.14074.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com. > > .. > > > > > Now, if deprecated were improved to take a message (

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday 11 July 2011 14:26:32 Daniel Murphy wrote: > "Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message > news:mailman.1520.1310357559.14074.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... > > > Now, if deprecated were improved to take a message (and to allow for > > soft > > deprecation, since the messages printing

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Daniel Murphy
"Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message news:mailman.1520.1310357559.14074.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... > Now, if deprecated were improved to take a message (and to allow for soft > deprecation, since the messages printing here are about stuff being > scheduled > for deprecation rather th

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:ivdbdp$2cg7$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 7/10/2011 1:11 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: >> Were you using the same fonts in the browser as the PDF? > > I've tried many different fonts in the browser, to no avail. And as an > aside, the *DEFAULT* font in a browser

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Sunday 10 July 2011 21:04:25 Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Monday 11 July 2011 03:41:20 Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > > General annoyance: > > $ dmd *.d > > Warning: As of Phobos 2.054, std.ctype has been scheduled for > > deprecation in January 2012. Please use std.ascii instead. > > Warning: As of Pho

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Monday 11 July 2011 03:41:20 Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > General annoyance: > $ dmd *.d > Warning: As of Phobos 2.054, std.ctype has been scheduled for deprecation in > January 2012. Please use std.ascii instead. > Warning: As of Phobos 2.052, std.date and std.dateparse have been scheduled > for depr

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
Yay, my active project compiles again! With only 7 of those annoying deprecation messages... but I didn't have to insert any casts! Yay! Almost every one of my switch statements was broken by this new release. Thankfully, it's an easy fix - go to the line it complains about and add "default: asser

Re: dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
General annoyance: $ dmd *.d Warning: As of Phobos 2.054, std.ctype has been scheduled for deprecation in January 2012. Please use std.ascii instead. Warning: As of Phobos 2.052, std.date and std.dateparse have been scheduled for deprecation in August 2011. Please use std.datetime instead. Warning:

dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

2011-07-10 Thread Walter Bright
Continuing the trend, more people contributed to this release than any other! http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.069.zip http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.054.zip

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/10/2011 1:11 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: Were you using the same fonts in the browser as the PDF? I've tried many different fonts in the browser, to no avail. And as an aside, the *DEFAULT* font in a browser should display very well. It doesn't; not in IE, not in FF. Personally, I've

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Jeff Nowakowski
On 07/10/2011 01:33 PM, Walter Bright wrote: For reasons that are a mystery to me, the same text on the same operating system on the same display will render much nicer as a pdf than in a browser. This is true for Windows/IE as well as Ubuntu/Firefox. It's why I gave up on using a browser to d

Re: Programming Windows D Examples are now Online!

2011-07-10 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-07-10 15:55, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: gtkD seems to have pango bindings. But the bindings themselves are LGPL. DWT does seem to have some bindings to pango too. Btw, which license does DWT use? It would be good to update the http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GuiLibraries page and fill tha

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/10/2011 8:31 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: I don't get it. HTML flows correctly to different screen sizes, unlike PDF. HTML is widely portable. Where's the advantage to PDF? For reasons that are a mystery to me, the same text on the same operating system on the same display will render much

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Jeff Nowakowski
On 07/09/2011 01:12 AM, Russel Winder wrote: Whilst e-books and tablets may be the current fashion, PDF is still the most portable document distribution format. I don't get it. HTML flows correctly to different screen sizes, unlike PDF. HTML is widely portable. Where's the advantage to PDF?

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 09.07.2011 8:59, Jordi Sayol wrote: Al 09/07/11 06:20, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: Amazon has a kindle app for Windows which will display it, there's probably one for Linux too. 'fbreader' properly handle 'dlangspec.mobi' on Ubuntu 11.04 Best regards, You can also try this file conver

Re: Programming Windows D Examples are now Online!

2011-07-10 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
gtkD seems to have pango bindings. But the bindings themselves are LGPL. DWT does seem to have some bindings to pango too. Btw, which license does DWT use? It would be good to update the http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GuiLibraries page and fill that in.

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 10.07.2011 12:19, schrieb Walter Bright: On 7/10/2011 1:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote: Development, and particularly compilation, is a different matter. The introduction of the ability to import from a non-local Git, Mercurial or Bazaar repository embeds the assumption of permanent connectivity

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Walter Bright
On 7/10/2011 1:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote: Development, and particularly compilation, is a different matter. The introduction of the ability to import from a non-local Git, Mercurial or Bazaar repository embeds the assumption of permanent connectivity of the developer's machine to the Internet.

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Thomas Mader
Thanks for explaining this, Russel. For me this looks like a nice feature even though i realize that it can and will be frustrating if people use it the wrong way. I can imagine that it is helpful for importing different tags or branches of something for testing purposes and the like. But only for

Re: Programming Windows D Examples are now Online!

2011-07-10 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-07-09 20:00, Johannes Pfau wrote: Andrej Mitrovic wrote: I'll see about contributing to your project in some way. I'm interested in how Cairo's new opengl backend operates, animation works somewhat ok with a win32 backend but it seems to quickly eat up performance (that could be my mista

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-10 Thread Russel Winder
Thomas, On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 10:19 +0200, Thomas Mader wrote: > > Am 09.07.2011 07:13 schrieb "Russel Winder" : > > > > (It appears that Go now assumes you have 100% connectivity to the > > Internet 100% of the time both for execution and development :-( > > Please tell more about this or give