On 07/04/10 19:23, Walter Bright wrote:
The reason for this release being in a bit of a hurry is because:
1. Memory corruption problems are a nasty, ugly, soul-sucking problem
for anyone using the compiler. They make the language look really bad.
Rolling out a fix for them is and should be first priority.
I agree, I'm glad to see it's so important for you too :)
2. I'm going to be gone to the ACCU next week, and so won't be working
on the compiler. I don't think this update can wait.
Again, I'd have to agree, other non-critical patches can wait,
particularly if you have other commitments.
The dwarf patches you wrote are very important and I wanted to get them
in, but there isn't time. The existing patches have already destabilized
the build & test enough :-(
This is unfortunate, I guess they can wait though. Could you maybe
specify which patches are causing issues so people can look at them and
help take some of your work load? There's a lot of people who are
willing to help test/tweak patches out there, they're generally in the
less vocal minority though.
Also, I'm spending my time preparing for the ACCU (Andrei and I were
invited to do a full day tutorial on D, yay!) which is important as we
want to get D's best foot forward. It's a great opportunity for D.
Getting the word out about D is a good idea, particularly with D2
stabilizing and becoming feature frozen. I hope there's video's for
some/all of this so those of us who cannot attend don't miss out, I've
enjoyed watching previous video's from various D based presentations!
You've mentioned the time constraints are becoming more of an issue for
you, which is holding back patches... Maybe it's time to take the next
step in the open source development model and give others commit access
to the dmd repository? You could of course review all commits, and set
strict regulations on what gets in, eg bigger changes/patches must be
run by you first, the test suite must pass etc, whatever you deem fit to
make sure nothing too radical gets in. An ideal candidate for commit
access would of course be Don who has been providing excellent patches
for a long time now, and I'm sure he'd be happy to go along with
whatever regulations you put in place... Just something for you to
consider, particularly if you're going to have less time to work on the
compiler here and there :)
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