Re: dmd 2.065 rc 1

2014-02-17 Thread Joakim
On Tuesday, 18 February 2014 at 01:26:52 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: Andrew Edwards wrote: First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to en

Re: std.serialization

2014-02-17 Thread Rory McGuire
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > > No, that's not required. When a subclass is registered I'm storing a > templated delegate which performs the downcast. Have a look at these two > methods: > > https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/orange/blob/master/orange/serialization/ > Se

Re: dmd 2.065 rc 1

2014-02-17 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/17/2014 5:26 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote: Speaking about Fedora, DMD will never get into their official repository. I've spoken to them. Even the RPMFusion guys were sceptical. Reason is simple, every new mirror would need to request permission from Walter to distribute DMD backend. Ask them to

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Rikki Cattermole
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 21:28:24 UTC, John Carter wrote: At various academic conferences I have attended they have had "Poster Sessions" where instead of a formal stand up and talk people put up A0 posters. The submitter then can stand around to field questions and deeper discussion f

Re: Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

2014-02-17 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:12:39 -0500, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-02-16 21:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Right, but there is no obligation to follow this pattern. One is free to just not do anything, and the GC will clean up your garbage. I was replying to the issue that it's not possible

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Ary Borenszweig
On 2/16/14, 10:55 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, Walter and I are hard at work on reviewing DConf 2014 submissions. We'd like to thank all of you who have submitted. There is not even one submission that we found sub-par or unacceptable. That said, the sheer numbers force us to make ha

Re: dmd 2.065 rc 1

2014-02-17 Thread Dejan Lekic
Andrew Edwards wrote: > First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi > Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact > my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to ensure > that it happens. > > RC1 is available for review: > >

Re: dmd 2.065 beta 1 #2

2014-02-17 Thread Dejan Lekic
Andrew Edwards wrote: > On 1/26/14, 11:19 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: >> El 26/01/14 16:23, Dejan Lekic ha escrit: >>> On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 08:25:05 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: El 22/01/14 02:06, Andrew Edwards ha escrit: > On 1/21/14, 6:02 PM, Jordi Sayol wrote: >> El 21/01/14 23:

Re: dmd 2.065 rc 1

2014-02-17 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/17/2014 3:17 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote: First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to ensure that it happens. Awesome! Thanks and con

dmd 2.065 rc 1

2014-02-17 Thread Andrew Edwards
First I would like to say thanks to Martin Nowak, Kenji Hara, Jordi Sayol and Brad Anderson for their support. Their efforts directly impact my ability to prepare the releases and they work tirelessly to ensure that it happens. RC1 is available for review: All Systems: http://ftp.digitalm

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread John Carter
At various academic conferences I have attended they have had "Poster Sessions" where instead of a formal stand up and talk people put up A0 posters. The submitter then can stand around to field questions and deeper discussion from those interested. Although A0 paper is a bit Old Worlde in this a

Re: Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

2014-02-17 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 17.02.2014 21:40, schrieb inout: On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:40:54 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 23:40:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote: On 2/16/14, 10:18, Elie Morisse wrote: IMHO an approach that would not involve making a binary choice between "full D" and "minimal D

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/17/2014 5:45 AM, Dicebot wrote: Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging as hitti

Re: Digger - a D archeology tool

2014-02-17 Thread Joakim
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 07:46:04 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 2/17/14, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: https://github.com/CyberShadow/Digger Now I understand how you've managed to find offending pull requests for regressions so fast. Will try the tool as soon as there's a new regression

Re: Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

2014-02-17 Thread inout
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:40:54 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 23:40:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote: On 2/16/14, 10:18, Elie Morisse wrote: IMHO an approach that would not involve making a binary choice between "full D" and "minimal D" is to add an option to make the li

Re: Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

2014-02-17 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2014-02-16 21:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Right, but there is no obligation to follow this pattern. One is free to just not do anything, and the GC will clean up your garbage. I was replying to the issue that it's not possible to know in the destructor of a class if it's destroyed by t

Re: std.serialization

2014-02-17 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2014-02-17 13:20, Rory McGuire wrote: Interesting, do you have to run though all registered classes that are sub-classes of the base class and cast them checking for null? No, that's not required. When a subclass is registered I'm storing a templated delegate which performs the downcast. Ha

Re: COMPO

2014-02-17 Thread Steve Teale
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:57:55 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: I would love to get some feedback on both the application and the documentation Have now done a dual-boot install of Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit, and built COMPO using that. Seems to pass limited sanity testing. Will make a .deb file tom

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 02/17/2014 12:18 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I encourage all of them, accepted or not, to also submit their proposals to other conferences. Still in Silicon Valley but I think Code Camp is yet another conference D should be present at. Twelve tracks, hundreds of speakers and sessions: ht

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Daniel Kozák
Dicebot píše v Po 17. 02. 2014 v 13:45 +: > There are some internal speculations about possibility to host > smaller european counterpart of DConf at Sociomantic in other > part of the year but have no idea if something will actually come > out of it eventually. This would be great! I am un

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread simendsjo
On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 13:45:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Dicebot
Both good and bad news. Awesome part is that D community is already able to generate that much quality content for a yearly conference. Somewhat sad part is that a lot of good stuff won't be seen because simply publishing talks is not that encouraging as hitting DConf itself :) There are some

Re: Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

2014-02-17 Thread 1100110
On 2/17/14, 0:40, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 23:40:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote: On 2/16/14, 10:18, Elie Morisse wrote: IMHO an approach that would not involve making a binary choice between "full D" and "minimal D" is to add an option to make the linker strip druntime and Phob

Re: early alpha of D REPL

2014-02-17 Thread Rory McGuire
hehe, sorry. I use GMail and your comment was the last comment so I ended up commenting on your comment instead of the announcement. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Tourist wrote: > > > Looks like you're being sarcastic. > What I meant is that sending comments twice disconnects the server. I ca

Re: std.serialization

2014-02-17 Thread Rory McGuire
Interesting, do you have to run though all registered classes that are sub-classes of the base class and cast them checking for null? On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 06:09:35 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote: > > A base class reference is: from yo

Re: DConf 2014 acceptance rate likely under 50%

2014-02-17 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/16/2014 10:21 PM, Rory McGuire wrote: Great news! In a strange way. Perhaps we could encourage the people that are not accepted to make videos of their submissions by going to local universities and asking if they can do a talk there? Would be an interesting way of promoting D and getting m