Leandro Lucarella wrote:
Don, el 26 de agosto a las 09:37 me escribiste:
I have a copy of Walter's internal DMD test suite, so I could actually
What was the reason not to release the test suite? Copyright?
Yes.
Because Walter has claimed frequently that the submitted patches are not
well tested. It would be a huge help for people contributing patches to
have the "official" test suite to be sure their patches would be accepted.
Yes, though you don't need the test suite, just the results. You just
need to know: "that passed all tests" or "here are test cases which it
fails".
It still doesn't guarantee that the patch will be accepted, though --
Walter may decide the patch fixes the problem at the wrong place.
test all of the patches and be 'patchmeister'(I'm currently responsible
for more than half the patches, anyway). Maybe we could have
a 'patchdmd' branch in the repository, which I would have write access
to, maybe that would make it easier for Walter to incorporate patches
(it'd be particularly valuable for DMD1, I think). But the last thing
I'd want to do is make a fork of DMD.
And you know what? Even if you want, you can't (without Walter permission,
of course)...
Walter's permission is an obvious condition. BTW, that's untrue, anyway:
the front-end is GPLed, so a patched front-end can certainly be
redistributed. But it'd just be a service to Walter anyway.
Then people ask why it's important that DMD is *really* free/libre.
I'm one of those people, and I still don't see how it makes any
practical difference. The backend is extremely useful for compiler
development, but it's not significant in the long-term development of
the language. I don't think a 32-bit only backend will be very valuable
in 5-10 years time.
