Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Jordi Sayol
Al 03/01/13 09:26, En/na Russel Winder ha escrit: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 20:31 +0100, Jordi Sayol wrote: […] Walter, to avoid this problem you can install a rolling release like Linux Mint Debian Edition, based on Debian testing. You just need to keep it upgraded with mintUpdate manager

Re: UIs for Linux [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 3 January 2013 09:29, Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 00:34 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 12:25 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 1/3/2013 12:22 PM, Russel Winder пишет: I threw in the towel on Ubuntu when Unity came out as the default UI.

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/3/13 3:32 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/2/2013 11:53 PM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 13:18 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] I don't store email on the server, I store it locally. I think that this is at the heart of your mail problems. It means you rely on one and only one

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread bearophile
deadalnix: I still have code broken all over the place. D2 is getting its corner case problems sorted out and fixed, but this still causes some breakage in user code. As more people use D2, issues are found, discussed and fixed, the breakages will get more and more uncommon. Bye,

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread deadalnix
On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 16:43:06 UTC, bearophile wrote: deadalnix: I still have code broken all over the place. D2 is getting its corner case problems sorted out and fixed, but this still causes some breakage in user code. As more people use D2, issues are found, discussed and

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 01/01/2013 03:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: 1. the dlang.org isn't updated yet. Is the change log available somewhere else? I want to spread the news but it is not very interesting without knowing what has changed. :) Ali

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 1:22 AM, Russel Winder wrote: I don't see that local or server-based storage makes any difference to the ability to manage email. But maybe I am missing something about your particular workflow. 1. I control the backups 2. Third parties don't have access to my email history. I

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 8:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/3/13 3:32 AM, Walter Bright wrote: I know. On the other hand, you have control over your email data. FWIW it's all an illusion. Mail is sent unsecured so securing the mail sent and received is futile. I know it doesn't guarantee that there

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 5:20 AM, Matthew Caron wrote: On 01/02/2013 04:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Why would you need to? If your mail store is IMAP, just let it rebuild. I don't store email on the server, I store it locally. I gave that up years ago when I ended up with more than one device. Too much

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, January 03, 2013 17:59:22 deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 16:43:06 UTC, bearophile wrote: deadalnix: I still have code broken all over the place. D2 is getting its corner case problems sorted out and fixed, but this still causes some breakage in user code.

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 2:17 AM, Russel Winder wrote: The very existence of TRIM indicates a systemic problem. I think you misunderstand what TRIM is. Nobody anticipated a need for TRIM before SSDs, so no operating system issued TRIM commands. It's like saying C has a systemic problem because it

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:43:03 +0100 schrieb bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com: deadalnix: I still have code broken all over the place. D2 is getting its corner case problems sorted out and fixed, but this still causes some breakage in user code. As more people use D2, issues are

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 3:27 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I can also add that the latest upgrades I have performed I cloned the hard drive containing the OS. Then I perform the upgrade on the clone, if everything works ok I either run the clone instead or does the same on the original disk. That's probably

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, January 03, 2013 10:26:51 Walter Bright wrote: 2. Third parties don't have access to my email history. I don't care what their privacy policy says - if they have it, they will use it as they please. You have no way to even discover what they do with it Unless you're managing your

Re: Re TRIM Support [was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release]

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 2:40 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] Windows 7 has TRIM support, Windows XP does not. I have an SSD drive in an XP machine, it runs as slow as a spinning disk. An SSD in Win7, with TRIM, runs like lightning. Linux had TRIM

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] 1. I control the backups I run my own SMTP and IMAP server, including it's backing up. I like control! 2. Third parties don't have access to my email history. I don't care what their privacy policy says - if they have it, they

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Caron
On 01/03/2013 01:26 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 1:22 AM, Russel Winder wrote: I don't see that local or server-based storage makes any difference to the ability to manage email. But maybe I am missing something about your particular workflow. 1. I control the backups The hosting

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Matthew Caron
On 01/03/2013 01:36 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 3:27 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I can also add that the latest upgrades I have performed I cloned the hard drive containing the OS. Then I perform the upgrade on the clone, if everything works ok I either run the clone instead or does the

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 10:53 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] 1. I control the backups I run my own SMTP and IMAP server, including it's backing up. I like control! I agree that is the best solution.

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 10:41 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Unless you're managing your own e-mail server (which you may be doing - I have no idea), then even if you store your e-mail locally and delete it from the server, you're still not saved from this. I know - but it's less likely, and most ISPs delete

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/3/13 1:53 PM, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] 1. I control the backups I run my own SMTP and IMAP server, including it's backing up. I like control! 2. Third parties don't have access to my email history. I don't care what their privacy

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, January 03, 2013 10:49:08 Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 10:11 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 01/01/2013 03:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: 1. the dlang.org isn't updated yet. Is the change log available somewhere else? I want to spread the news but it is not very interesting

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread David Nadlinger
On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 19:36:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: In fact, I think that _every_ item in Phobos' changelog.d was lost. That information needs to be presented to users. Agreed – while it is great to finally see the manually maintained list of fixed bugs being replaced with a

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Johannes Pfau, el 3 de January a las 19:37 me escribiste: Am Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:43:03 +0100 schrieb bearophile bearophileh...@lycos.com: deadalnix: I still have code broken all over the place. D2 is getting its corner case problems sorted out and fixed, but this still causes

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-03 19:53, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] 1. I control the backups I run my own SMTP and IMAP server, including it's backing up. I like control! Next step: becoming your own ISP ? -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:17 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: […] Whoa. Four instances I run my own SMTP and IMAP server in about as many paragraphs. You must feel quite strongly about that... :-) Originally I was doing it to make sure I could sys admin Apache/Postfix/Dovecot (previously

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Philippe Sigaud
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:00 PM, David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at wrote: On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 19:36:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: In fact, I think that _every_ item in Phobos' changelog.d was lost. That information needs to be presented to users. Agreed – while it is great to

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 21:08 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote: […] Next step: becoming your own ISP ? Define ISP ;-) -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
04-Jan-2013 00:12, Russel Winder пишет: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 21:08 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote: […] Next step: becoming your own ISP ? Define ISP ;-) Then go for autonomous system aka AS g -- Dmitry Olshansky

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Walter Bright, el 1 de January a las 15:46 me escribiste: The big news is Win64 is now supported (in alpha). http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html D 1.076 changelog: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html BTW, Changelogs looks extremely naked now, I think release notes are

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Rouleau
On 13-01-03 3:11 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:00 PM, David Nadlinger s...@klickverbot.at mailto:s...@klickverbot.at wrote: On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 19:36:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: In fact, I think that _every_ item in Phobos' changelog.d was

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 3 January 2013 20:27, Leandro Lucarella l...@llucax.com.ar wrote: Walter Bright, el 1 de January a las 15:46 me escribiste: The big news is Win64 is now supported (in alpha). http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html D 1.076 changelog:

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 01/03/2013 10:49 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 10:11 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 01/01/2013 03:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote: 1. the dlang.org isn't updated yet. Is the change log available somewhere else? I want to spread the news but it is not very interesting without knowing what

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread deadalnix
On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 18:36:32 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, January 03, 2013 17:59:22 deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 16:43:06 UTC, bearophile wrote: deadalnix: I still have code broken all over the place. D2 is getting its corner case problems sorted

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Iain Buclaw, el 3 de January a las 21:48 me escribiste: On 3 January 2013 20:27, Leandro Lucarella l...@llucax.com.ar wrote: Walter Bright, el 1 de January a las 15:46 me escribiste: The big news is Win64 is now supported (in alpha). http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread deadalnix
On Tuesday, 1 January 2013 at 23:46:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: The big news is Win64 is now supported (in alpha). http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html D 1.076 changelog: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html A couple issues: 1. the dlang.org isn't updated yet. 2. the OS X

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 11:17 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrei I don't yet run my own SMTP and IMAP server Alexandrescu Sheesh. How can you ever hold your head up again after that admission?

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 11:36 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Oh. Those are links. I was wondering when the data was actually going to be posted. When compared to the previous ones, it looks like there's only headers with no information. The idea is to add explanatory information to the bugzilla issue being

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 12:27 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: BTW, Changelogs looks extremely naked now, I think release notes are really needed now. Al least for new features. Is far from ideal to make people go through a bug report to know how they can adapt their code to new features. On the other hand,

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 3:38 AM, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 01:06:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Please post example to bugzilla. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9263 Thank you. (And whaddya know, Kenji just fixed it!)

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 4:22 PM, deadalnix wrote: Ran into some trouble to make it work, but awesome news : the GC collecting live stuff problem is gone (most likely a closure bug rather than a GC bug). There are still a couple of memory-corrupting closure bugs left. Turns out they are rather hard to

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Friday, 4 January 2013 at 03:21:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 3:38 AM, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 01:06:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Please post example to bugzilla. http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9263 Thank you. (And whaddya know, Kenji

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/3/13 10:07 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 11:17 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrei I don't yet run my own SMTP and IMAP server Alexandrescu Sheesh. How can you ever hold your head up again after that admission? I actually used to, heh. Communigate Pro they called it, beautiful

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Walter Bright, el 3 de January a las 19:10 me escribiste: On 1/3/2013 11:36 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Oh. Those are links. I was wondering when the data was actually going to be posted. When compared to the previous ones, it looks like there's only headers with no information. The idea

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, January 03, 2013 19:10:59 Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 11:36 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: Oh. Those are links. I was wondering when the data was actually going to be posted. When compared to the previous ones, it looks like there's only headers with no information. The

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Pierre Rouleau
On 13-01-03 10:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 12:27 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: BTW, Changelogs looks extremely naked now, I think release notes are really needed now. Al least for new features. Is far from ideal to make people go through a bug report to know how they can adapt their

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, January 03, 2013 19:18:25 Walter Bright wrote: As for what's new, the failure here is the failure to document those changes. This is not a failure of the changelog - it's a failure of the documentation pages. The bugzilla should have a link to the relevant documentation. I do

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Walter Bright, el 3 de January a las 19:18 me escribiste: On 1/3/2013 12:27 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: BTW, Changelogs looks extremely naked now, I think release notes are really needed now. Al least for new features. Is far from ideal to make people go through a bug report to know how they

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 9:54 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote: However, for outsiders like me, that manages development groups and is waiting for D2 to become stable enough to start investing preliminary prototypes in D2 and developing software in house (first for tools while training new developers with it) and

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 9:54 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: I do *not* think that a changelog new feature entry takes the place of updating the documentation, and I do not agree with writing the documentation twice (changelog and documentation). In general, the only new features which need to be in the

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 9:20 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Examples: http://python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/ I see a list, one line per, with a clickable link. The only real difference is that there's one extra click to get that list in the D changelog, but then it's a list, one line per, with a

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 8:51 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Please, please, consider adding release notes, at least for new features is not good enough to just use bugzilla links, you need a clear, succinct explanation of the feature. Where would you put it? In the bug report itself? Most of the time is not

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, January 03, 2013 22:24:34 Walter Bright wrote: Please note that the documentation that was there before in the changelog, but with no corresponding bugzilla entry, has been cut pasted into the enhancement request bugzilla entry that I created for it. Nothing has been lost or

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 9:49 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: but other lines like $(LI std.string: $(RED The implementations of std.string.format and string.sformat have been replaced with improved implementations which conform to writef. In some, rare cases, this will break code. Please see the documentation

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 8:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrei I know better than run my own SMTP/IMAP servers Alexandrescu All we need now is a Penny.

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 7:44 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote: * I'm still going to complain. :P My dad always told me that the time to worry is when there's no grumbling :-)

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Thursday, January 03, 2013 23:03:23 Walter Bright wrote: This is 3 separate enhancements, each of which should be its own issue, and will certainly fit as the issue title. If you think that these work as titles in bugzilla issues, you're missing the point. They're notes that need to be

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 10:42 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Nobody has put forth that effort in the past, resulting in the changelog being pretty crummy and woefully incomplete. I apologize to Jonathan for that remark, because Jonathan has been putting out an effort on this.

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/3/2013 11:15 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, January 03, 2013 23:03:23 Walter Bright wrote: This is 3 separate enhancements, each of which should be its own issue, and will certainly fit as the issue title. If you think that these work as titles in bugzilla issues, you're

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread bearophile
Are you going to remove the D1 compiler parts of code in the D2 compiler source code? A leaner source base will help. Also this transitional moment seems a good moment to rename the .c suffix of the frontend+backend C++ files to .cpp or something like that. I have to warn people that if they

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 09:12:49 bearophile wrote: I have to warn people that if they want to suddenly switch from 2.060 to 2.061 with no intermediate steps, probably some of their code will break, and they will have to work to fix it. Why? - Jonathan M davis

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread bearophile
Jonathan M Davis: Why? Because the two numbers 2.060 and 2.061 look very very similar, so people that see them risk thinking they are just two nearly identical releases of the same compiler. But many months have passed between those two versions, many bugs have being removed, several

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:19:54 bearophile wrote: Jonathan M Davis: Why? Because the two numbers 2.060 and 2.061 look very very similar, so people that see them risk thinking they are just two nearly identical releases of the same compiler. But many months have passed between

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread bearophile
Jonathan M Davis: And how is that any different from any other release? How much time used to pass between two adjacent releases, in past? Bye, bearophile

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 00:46, Walter Bright wrote: 2. the OS X package hasn't been built yet (problems with the package script). What isn't working? Is there something I can do to help? -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 12:55, bearophile wrote: Jonathan M Davis: And how is that any different from any other release? How much time used to pass between two adjacent releases, in past? Bye, bearophile Around a month, perhaps. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 00:46, Walter Bright wrote: 2. the OS X package hasn't been built yet (problems with the package script). I think this will fix the problem: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/9 I don't know if this is the problem you encountered but: PackageMaker is

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread David Eagen
On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 08:20:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 09:12:49 bearophile wrote: I have to warn people that if they want to suddenly switch from 2.060 to 2.061 with no intermediate steps, probably some of their code will break, and they will have

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:14:53 +0100 schrieb David Eagen davidea...@mailinator.com: On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 08:20:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 09:12:49 bearophile wrote: I have to warn people that if they want to suddenly switch from 2.060 to 2.061

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 4:12 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-01-02 00:46, Walter Bright wrote: 2. the OS X package hasn't been built yet (problems with the package script). What isn't working? Is there something I can do to help? The various packages are all built on Ubuntu. The OS X one failed

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Iain Buclaw
On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 17:53:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/2/2013 4:12 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-01-02 00:46, Walter Bright wrote: 2. the OS X package hasn't been built yet (problems with the package script). What isn't working? Is there something I can do to help?

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 7:27 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: That's unfortunately normal for every dmd release. We try to stay API compatible, but ABI usually breaks with every compiler/druntime/phobos update. This means you can't mix object/library files compiled with different compiler versions. I go to some

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 9:59 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 17:53:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/2/2013 4:12 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-01-02 00:46, Walter Bright wrote: 2. the OS X package hasn't been built yet (problems with the package script). What isn't working?

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 09:53 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] The various packages are all built on Ubuntu. The OS X one failed because it couldn't find ruby, and ruby does not work on Ubuntu (at least my version of Ubuntu - there is no ruby package for it). There has been a Ruby package on

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:07 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] Yeah, really. sudo apt-get ruby fails on Ubuntu 10.10. Any and all apt-related commands are likely to fail for that version of Ubuntu, it is no longer supported. Definitely need to stick with LTS version of Ubuntu or keep up to date,

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jordi Sayol
Al 02/01/13 19:07, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: Really? http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/ruby Yeah, really. sudo apt-get ruby fails on Ubuntu 10.10. $ sudo apt-get install ruby -- Jordi Sayol

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 10:37 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: Al 02/01/13 19:07, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: Really? http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/ruby Yeah, really. sudo apt-get ruby fails on Ubuntu 10.10. $ sudo apt-get install ruby That's what I did try, and yes, it fails too.

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 10:17 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:07 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] Yeah, really. sudo apt-get ruby fails on Ubuntu 10.10. Any and all apt-related commands are likely to fail for that version of Ubuntu, it is no longer supported. Definitely need to stick

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:47 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/2/2013 10:37 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: Al 02/01/13 19:07, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: Really? http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/ruby Yeah, really. sudo apt-get ruby fails on Ubuntu 10.10. $ sudo apt-get install ruby

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:51 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that the installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one. Just because it happened once doesn't mean it will always happen. Until I abandoned all use of Ubuntu, I

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jordi Sayol
Al 02/01/13 19:47, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: On 1/2/2013 10:37 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: Al 02/01/13 19:07, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: Really? http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/ruby Yeah, really. sudo apt-get ruby fails on Ubuntu 10.10. $ sudo apt-get install ruby That's what I

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 11:09 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:51 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that the installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one. Just because it happened once doesn't mean it will always

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 11:09 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: I don't know why. mercury ~ sudo apt-get install ruby [sudo] password for walter: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 11:05 AM, Russel Winder wrote: To be expected in the circumstances since 10.10 is no longer supported. Looks like I'll have to hold my nose and push the upgrade button, but after this release is settled down. Does the latest Ubuntu work properly with SSD drives? I know 10.10

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 03:20:27 Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:19:54 bearophile wrote: Jonathan M Davis: Why? Because the two numbers 2.060 and 2.061 look very very similar, so people that see them risk thinking they are just two nearly identical

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jordi Sayol
Al 02/01/13 20:28, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: On 1/2/2013 11:09 AM, Jordi Sayol wrote: I don't know why. mercury ~ sudo apt-get install ruby [sudo] password for walter: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jordi Sayol
Al 02/01/13 19:51, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: On 1/2/2013 10:17 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:07 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] Yeah, really. sudo apt-get ruby fails on Ubuntu 10.10. Any and all apt-related commands are likely to fail for that version of Ubuntu, it

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
1/2/2013 11:24 PM, Walter Bright пишет: On 1/2/2013 11:09 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:51 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that the installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one. Just because it

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 20:09, Russel Winder wrote: I have the opposite experience, Apple hardware seems incapable of upgrading operating systems. Their policy seems to be you want a new operating system, then buy a new piece of hardware from the store. I've been updating a couple of Macs from 10.6

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 19:51, Walter Bright wrote: I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that the installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one. That's what backups are for :) -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 12:01 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: P.S. I like calendar programs, but on Windows and Ubuntu, upgrading the OS inevitably deletes the calendar database. None of those frackin' calendar programs ever deign to tell me where they store their frackin' database, so I can back it up. I

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 18:53, Walter Bright wrote: The various packages are all built on Ubuntu. The OS X one failed because it couldn't find ruby, and ruby does not work on Ubuntu (at least my version of Ubuntu - there is no ruby package for it). Looks like my mistake is I should have run it on OS X.

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-01-02 21:37, Walter Bright wrote: Windows has gotten better in this regard, that is true. But it's still bizarre that, with Thunderbird, you can export/import the address book, but not the mail database. A welcome improvement would be to have a button to export/import the whole

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Matthew Caron
On 01/02/2013 03:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote: But it's still bizarre that, with Thunderbird, you can export/import the address book, but not the mail database. Why would you need to? If your mail store is IMAP, just let it rebuild. A welcome improvement would be to have a button to

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 12:47 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-01-02 21:37, Walter Bright wrote: Windows has gotten better in this regard, that is true. But it's still bizarre that, with Thunderbird, you can export/import the address book, but not the mail database. A welcome improvement would be to

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 12:56 PM, Matthew Caron wrote: On 01/02/2013 03:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote: But it's still bizarre that, with Thunderbird, you can export/import the address book, but not the mail database. Why would you need to? If your mail store is IMAP, just let it rebuild. I don't store

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 12:36 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2013-01-02 19:51, Walter Bright wrote: I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that the installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one. That's what backups are for :) Having backups doesn't work so good when the

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 13:18:02 Walter Bright wrote: What is the rationale behind import/export of address books, and not doing that for anything else? I don't know. kmail has basically the same problem. It drives me nuts that you can't export accounts. It makes setting up a new

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 11:24 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] It does when you don't remember what goes in the host file, what you had installed, redoing all the ssh keys, etc. It also deleted all my virtual boxes, I never did figure out how to get them working again. I simply gave up on

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/2/2013 1:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 13:18:02 Walter Bright wrote: What is the rationale behind import/export of address books, and not doing that for anything else? I don't know. kmail has basically the same problem. It drives me nuts that you can't

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