Release Candidate 2.082.0

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 17 August 2018 at 20:01:32 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.082.0 release, ♥ to 
the 47 contributors for this release.


http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta 
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.082.0.html


As usual please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org


Release candidate available for download now.

Website will be updated soon, seems like Digger hasn't yet picked 
up https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2458.

Re: Release Candidate 2.082.0

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 23:31:37 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Website will be updated soon, seems like Digger hasn't yet 
picked up https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/2458.


You can download binaries directly from 
http://downloads.dlang.org/pre-releases/2.x/2.082.0/ until that 
is fixed.

Re: GDC with D frontend 2.081.2

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:35 AM Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-announce <
digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> But this only works as you build gdc and gcc separately. I.e. for gdc,
> you build gcc+gdc, then throw away everything but gdc related
> executables. Then you compile gcc with different --with-pkgversion for
> the gcc package.
>
> However, this has the problem that your gcc executable now does not
> properly forward .d files to gdc as that build did not have --enable-
> languages=d. The supported way to do this is build all gcc based
> compilers at once. But then you can't use --with-pkgversion as it will
> apply to all compilers.
>
> --
> Johannes
>

Yes, but I never use gcc to compile .d files (I did not know it will work
anyway :) ), so I do not see this as a big issue.
But I understand it could be an issue for somebody else and it will be an
issue when gdc will be officialy part of gcc.