Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-07 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 July 2018 at 18:26:45 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: On Saturday, 7 July 2018 at 18:17:49 UTC, Seb wrote: Would be great to include https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8456 as it's a serious regression and the reason for the early 2.081.1 release. Because the quality of new DMD

Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-07 Thread Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 July 2018 at 18:17:49 UTC, Seb wrote: Would be great to include https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8456 as it's a serious regression and the reason for the early 2.081.1 release. Because the quality of new DMD releases is often subpar, the LDC release plan is to only release

Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-07 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 at 20:38:54 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.11. * Based on D 2.081.0. * Prebuilt packages now using LLVM 6.0.1 and including additional cross-compilation targets (MIPS, MSP430, RISC-V and WebAssembly). Full release log and downloads:

Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-05 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thx for the rationale; I may have a look at it over the weekend.

Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-05 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 09:40:46 UTC, kinke wrote: I failed to see a benefit from being able to use classes with static members only (abuse as namespace?) Yeah, pretty much, but also static inheritance. You can see the pattern where I use it at

Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-05 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 10:57:17 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: I failed to see a benefit from being able to use classes with static members only (abuse as namespace?) Yeah, pretty much, but also static inheritance. You can see the pattern where I use it at

Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-05 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 July 2018 at 08:55:00 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: I notice the minimal2.d test from the DMD test suite is disabled: https://github.com/ldc-developers/dmd-testsuite/blob/977ef0696f7941357385925c07617544c3527f4c/runnable/minimal2.d#L5 How permanent/temporary is that? Is there

Re: LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-05 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 at 20:38:54 UTC, kinke wrote: Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.11. Thanks for all the work on this. I notice the minimal2.d test from the DMD test suite is disabled:

LDC 1.11.0 beta

2018-07-04 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce
Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.11. * Based on D 2.081.0. * Prebuilt packages now using LLVM 6.0.1 and including additional cross-compilation targets (MIPS, MSP430, RISC-V and WebAssembly). Full release log and downloads: