On Wednesday, September 06, 2017 23:10:11 Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at 20:03:28 UTC, Gary Willoughby > > wrote: > > I've just installed the latest dmd version (on ubuntu 64bit) > > and I get this: > > > > $ dmd --version > > DMD64 D Compiler v2.076.0-dirty > > Copyright (c) 1999-2017 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright > > > > What does 'dirty' mean? > > Just ignore it. This was a bug that accidentally slipped in as > the way the version is generated has been changed recently. It > has already been fixed: > https://github.com/dlang/installer/pull/250 > > For more details, see the PR or the linked issue.
Personally, I think that how the version number is handled needs further tweaking, as the recent changes have screwed up __VERSION__ for master: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17775 - Jonathan M Davis
