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?
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.
The difficulty with that is the test suite I use is cobbled together
from all kinds of sources. That means its copyright status is unclear.
Distributing it would be an unknown problem.
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)...
Then people ask why it's important that DMD is *really* free/libre.
You can make a fork of the compiler front end if you want - under the
GNU license. The LDC team does that.
