Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-11 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 03:13:18 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 14:17:28 UTC, Mike James wrote: The x64 sub-directory does not exist on my system. We found the bug and I build a new installer with the fix. https://dlang.dawg.eu/downloads/dmd.2.069.0~fix15824

Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Lionello Lunesu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Sorry for the short notice, but I'll be giving an introduction to D at this month's Codeaholics meetup. Drop by if you happen to be in Hong Kong! More info here (no need for RSVP): http://www.meetup.com/Codeaholics/events/226177740/ 7pm - 9pm CoCoon 3/F, Citicorp Centre, 18 Whitfield Road, TinH

Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-11 Thread wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 08:41:41 UTC, Mike James wrote: On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 03:13:18 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 14:17:28 UTC, Mike James wrote: The x64 sub-directory does not exist on my system. We found the bug and I build a new installer

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 01:19 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: an introduction to D at this month's Codeaholics meetup Can you share your slides please... within the next 12 hours or so... before some of us give a similar talk... :) Ali

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Lionello Lunesu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/15 18:30, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 11/11/2015 01:19 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: an introduction to D at this month's Codeaholics meetup Can you share your slides please... within the next 12 hours or so... before some of us give a similar talk... :) Ali Sure thing: https://onedrive.

Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-11 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe Windows installer bug. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html -Martin

Re: Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-11 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/11/15 1:04 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe Windows installer bug. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html -Martin Oh great, now we need anothe

Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-11 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 11:22 AM, wobbles wrote: > I also tried on Windows 8.1 64-bit. To test, I installed it over DMD > 2.067 and 2.068, both were successful. Now released, http://forum.dlang.org/post/n1vatr$1106$1...@digitalmars.com.

Re: Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-11 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 01:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: > > Oh great, now we need another point release to fix: > https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15281 Seems like that can wait 3 weeks for the officially scheduled point release (Dec 1st).

Re: Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-11 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/11/15 1:10 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/11/2015 01:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Oh great, now we need another point release to fix: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15281 Seems like that can wait 3 weeks for the officially scheduled point release (Dec 1st). This has already

D Language Architect

2015-11-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well, D had already been created when I joined but I worked on a number of features" etc. Alt

Re: D Language Architect

2015-11-11 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/11/15 1:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well, D had already been created when I joined bu

Re: Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-11 Thread develop32 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:05:16 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: This is an unplanned point release whose sole purpose is to fix a severe Windows installer bug. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.1/ http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.1.html -Martin

Re: Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-11 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 01:18 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: > > This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look > especially since this is a major addition for this release. > Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei. Well, test the beta. Both, the installer bug and the lack of allo

Re: Release D 2.069.1

2015-11-11 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/11/15 2:46 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/11/2015 01:18 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look especially since this is a major addition for this release. Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei. Well, test the beta. Both, t

Re: Andrei's Quora comments on Reddit: "D has no vision. Go is out of its depth. Rust skipped leg day."

2015-11-11 Thread Namal via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 01:03:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3sa6lf/d_has_no_vision_go_is_out_of_its_depth_rust/ Ali Reading that someone was saying that it is possible to call c++ standard library from D. Is there an example how to do this

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

2015-11-11 Thread Namal via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 06:29:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 10/29/2015 08:59 PM, Joakim wrote: > it's very easy to set up a bitcoin address to receive donations I really appreciate it but... I am embarrassed to reveal that I don't want to have bitcoins. :) I can't explain this rationall

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 3:03 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Will share how it's received in an hour ;) This is great! How did it go?

Re: D Language Architect

2015-11-11 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Creator". So you are AAA now, Architect Andrei Alexandrescu.

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Lionello Lunesu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/15 23:34, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/11/2015 3:03 AM, Lionello Lunesu wrote: Will share how it's received in an hour ;) This is great! How did it go? Actually went much better than expected! Very engaging crowd, with good questions. I think the way I positioned D was being "just a

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 17:30:07 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote: as being a semantic difference, with no difference in memory layout. One can be indexed meaningfully, the other can't.) Eh, indexing char[] is meaningful, you just need to know what that meaning is...

Re: Tonight: Introduction to D at Codeaholics (HK)

2015-11-11 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 17:30:07 UTC, Lionello Lunesu wrote: * Can I create an array of shared ints (as opposed to a shared array of ints)? I said that one could by using shared(int)[], although I have yet to try this myself. Should totally work. Imagine thread-local slices from bunc

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

2015-11-11 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 07:34 AM, Namal wrote: > So is there a way to buy the book on paper besides amazon? Yes! I haven't announced it here yet but it's on the book's page: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ tl;dr: Search for ISBN 978-0-692-52957-7, which should be available conveniently at most places. B

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

2015-11-11 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 11:43 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: > tl;dr: > > Search for ISBN 978-0-692-52957-7 Searching for it without the dashes gives more results: 9780692529577 Ali

Re: Andrei's Quora comments on Reddit: "D has no vision. Go is out of its depth. Rust skipped leg day."

2015-11-11 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 06:42 AM, Namal wrote: someone was saying that it is possible to call c++ standard library from D. Is there an example how to do this? Here is the spec e.g. saying 'extern (C++, std)': http://dlang.org/attribute.html#linkage The following page is about interfacing with C++, w

Re: Andrei's Quora comments on Reddit: "D has no vision. Go is out of its depth. Rust skipped leg day."

2015-11-11 Thread Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 19:51:45 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: The following page is about interfacing with C++, which may not be up to date: http://dlang.org/cpp_interface.html Others: is it up to date? Ali Unfortunately, that page is very out of date. The last significant content u

Re: D Language Architect

2015-11-11 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:46:52 UTC, qznc wrote: On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So we mulled over this for a while and we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that henceforth. Walter will remain of course the "D Language Crea

Re: D Language Architect

2015-11-11 Thread The Old One via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:27:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Walter and I are planning major marketing moves, for which there's a necessity to describe my relationship with D succinctly. People routinely introduce me as "co-creator of D" and I need to explain "well, D had already

Re: D Language Architect

2015-11-11 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11/11/2015 04:26 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > we decided to go with "D Language Architect". I'll use that > henceforth. I've just used it when talking with a colleague today. :) Ali

Next London D Meetup - 18th November

2015-11-11 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi Please come to the London D meetup on Wednesday 18th November. We have a great talk by John Colvin on semi functional programming. We have a fantastic venue at skills matter with great facilities and free video recording capabilities. http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/22

Re: LDC 0.17.0 alpha cross-compiler for Android/ARM, D 2.068.2

2015-11-11 Thread Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 18:39:22 UTC, Joakim wrote: OK, I've rebuilt ldc with one small tweak: I've added the current directory to its rpath and bundled my system libconfig along with it, which is what the official ldc release does too. You shouldn't need libconfig installed by your sy

Re: Next London D Meetup - 18th November

2015-11-11 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 22:43:22 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Hi Please come to the London D meetup on Wednesday 18th November. We have a great talk by John Colvin on semi functional programming. We have a fantastic venue at skills matter with great facilities and free video recording cap

Re: "Programming in D" ebook is available for purchase

2015-11-11 Thread Namal via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 19:43:53 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Actually, there shouldn't be a problem if you order it even in Europe because as I understand it, CreateSpace has two other printing houses: one in UK and one in somewhere in Central Europe. (Don't quote me on that! This is jus

Re: D 2.068.2 test runner for Android ARM, please test and report results from your Android device

2015-11-11 Thread Fer22f via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 1 November 2015 at 09:50:16 UTC, Joakim wrote: https://github.com/joakim-noah/android/releases/tag/runners You can install a test runner app or run a command-line binary. This is from a Moto Maxx (it's a Droid Maxx rebranded), Android v5.0.2 and Snapdragon 805. These tests hang: s

Re: LDC 0.17.0 alpha cross-compiler for Android/ARM, D 2.068.2

2015-11-11 Thread Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 22:43:01 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote: On Saturday, 7 November 2015 at 18:39:22 UTC, Joakim wrote: OK, I've rebuilt ldc with one small tweak: I've added the current directory to its rpath and bundled my system libconfig along with it, which is what the official ldc r

Re: New Russian site about D Programming Language

2015-11-11 Thread Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:29:00 UTC, Suliman wrote: Would it be possible to create block "communities" on dlang.org site and put there links to national language communities? We are back online. Still site have a lot of issue, but we will fix them on running time. Sorry for a long shu