Sargon component library now on Dub

2014-12-13 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://code.dlang.org/packages/sargon These two modules failed to generate much interest in incorporating them into Phobos, but I'm still rather proud of them :-) Here they are: ◦sargon.lz77 - algorithms to compress and expand with LZ77 compression algorithm ◦sargon.halffloat - IEEE 754 half

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 13 December 2014 at 23:16:24 UTC, ZombineDev wrote: Many successful software projects provide a way to get early, unstable versions if one desires to do so. For example Firefox has 4 channels with corresponding levels of stability: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/05/firefox-and-the-

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 14/12/2014 4:28 a.m., Martin Nowak wrote: On 12/13/2014 02:59 PM, ZombineDev wrote: Thanks for the great work! Is it possible to also include dmd+druntimie+phobos git-head? It would be helpful to know if your project can be built with the new version of DMD (when it is officially released)

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d-announce
Many successful software projects provide a way to get early, unstable versions if one desires to do so. For example Firefox has 4 channels with corresponding levels of stability: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/05/firefox-and-the-release-channels/

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d-announce
I agree with most of your points. I don't think that anyone should consider master (git head) as even remotely stable. It's about testing experimental features in early stages of development. That said, I still think that more testing can't do any harm. Additionally, having pre-alpha releases (

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread Ellery Newcomer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/10/2014 08:50 PM, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce that D support on Travis-CI was launched today. I'm a noob when it comes to travis, so it isn't readily apparent to me, but given this, would travis support a build that installs a d compiler and also some version of python?

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/13/2014 02:59 PM, ZombineDev wrote: Thanks for the great work! Is it possible to also include dmd+druntimie+phobos git-head? It would be helpful to know if your project can be built with the new version of DMD (when it is officially released) ahead of time. If you are using some yet-to be

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d-announce
In the light of the DMD 2.066 regressions, I believe this would help bring the DMD release process closer to continuous delivery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBghnXBz3_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igwFj8PPSnw

Re: Travis-CI support for D

2014-12-13 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks for the great work! Is it possible to also include dmd+druntimie+phobos git-head? It would be helpful to know if your project can be built with the new version of DMD (when it is officially released) ahead of time. If you are using some yet-to be deprecated code you can fix the issue m