Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 16:57:24 UTC, jmh530 wrote: I thought the next release was to switch to ddmd and wasn't supposed to add a bunch of new features? That's for the dmd side, doesn't preclude work on druntime or Phobos.

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 delaying work that doesn't meet the deadlines is necessary to achiev

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 27.07.2015 um 22:43 schrieb jmh530: 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. I understand that frustration. I had some modest problems getting it to work wit

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 23:40:28 UTC, anonymous wrote: On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 09:04:08 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Yep I see where the energy goes http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ckjukjfkgrguhfhkd...@forum.dlang.org That has nothing to do with our release. https://trello.com/b/XoFjxiqG/activ

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
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. By way of comparison, I can download other languages and run

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 other machines I have. The information at [1] is outdated. Neither

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b1

2015-07-28 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-07-26 14:00, Martin Nowak wrote: Could someone please try the fix https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14801#c2. Unfortunately it doesn't work. I'll see if I can find some more information. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-07-26 15:55, Martin Nowak wrote: BTW, I'd like to phase out the fat 50-60MB combined zip, and add tar.xz/gz for linux/freebsd/osx. Does anyone still rely on the combined zip? Yes, DVM does rely on them. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-28 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 09:17:21 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: I never had issues with VisualD so far. Which version of VisualStudio do you have installed? 64-bit compilation for DMD also works for me for VisualD, as well as when using DUB from the "VS20xx x64 Native Tools Command Prompt" (x

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 delayi

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 09:43:00 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 othe