Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-24 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and foundation, I have recently made the difficult decision to part ways with Facebook, my employer of five years and nine months.

Re: Release D 2.068.0

2015-08-10 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 08:48:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.068.0. http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.068.0/ This release comes with many rangified phobos functions, 2 new GC profilers, a new AA implementation, and countless further improvements and fixes.

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-08-03 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 09:20:44 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: On 31.07.2015 02:41, Joseph Cassman wrote: [...] I just updated my VS2015 installation and can confirm the error message regarding libucrt.lib. I found the library in the folder c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-30 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 00:59:16 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:16:39 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: [...] Martin, appreciate the help with this issue. I have investigated further and it looks like there is a work-around (item [3] below). Here is a synopsis of

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:16:39 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:10:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: You're not allowed to redistribute the VS binaries, only the libc dlls. On Win32 we use our own libc (dmc) and linker (optlink). We could improve our installer so it

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 18:13:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 15:45:19 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: I guess what I mean to say is that they did it, maybe it can be done. Of course it can be done with an additional license agreement with microsoft. Of course VS

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 09:43:00 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 18:58:33 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: I just wasted a lot of time again trying to get Win64 set up on a machine I had to wipe. I had it working for 2.067.1 somehow but was never able to duplicate that on

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 09:30:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 18:58:33 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: Sorry for the following rant but I am frustrated by the poor quality of support for Windows 64 development. Try http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html.

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 09:10:43 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 17:12:49 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: I can understand that. But releases tend to be several months away. And not just two. So this is a bit frustrating. We're trying to get to a 2 month interval, and

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-27 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 09:04:08 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 07/26/2015 11:13 PM, anonymous wrote: Is std.expermimental.allocator planned for 2.068 ? I see it's still not merged and we already almost in August. We're trying hard here to meet some deadlines, so things are really simple.

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-27 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 12:21:19 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Second beta for the 2.068.0 release. http://downloads.dlang.org/pre-releases/2.x/2.068.0/ http://ftp.digitalmars.com/ Also available on Travis-CI as dmd-2.068.0-b2. The changelog (http://dlang.org/changelog.html#2.068.0)

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-27 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 20:43:38 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 18:58:33 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: Sorry for the following rant but I am frustrated by the poor quality of support for Windows 64 development. rant I understand that frustration. I had some modest problems

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-26 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 03:18:13 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: [...] How did the review finish, BTW? Still waiting on its summary. Unless I missed it. Looks like the review summary was just posted. Thanks for the update. Joseph

Re: Voting for std.experimental.allocator

2015-07-22 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 11:33:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Andrei is back online and thus it is time to make a decision about adding his allocator package (http://forum.dlang.org/post/vfipmwojmvseqxoiw...@forum.dlang.org) to Phobos std.experimental [...] Yes

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

2015-01-13 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 14:08:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've started writing a weekly D newsletter. Here's the first issue, any feedback welcome! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-12.html In the future, I intend to have it written by Saturday for a weekend release, so if you

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-10 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 10 May 2014 at 06:27:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/9/14, 5:28 PM, Kapps wrote: This would be cool, but I'd hope that it doesn't replace having videos posted to be viewable afterwards. Recording the talks is already a done deal. -- Andrei Awesomeness! Joseph

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-09 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 19:48:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hi folks, We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. In fact, so excited we're considering livestreaming the event for the benefit of the many of us who can't make it to Menlo Park, CA. Livestreaming