Re: Release D 2.069.1
On Sunday, 22 November 2015 at 23:54:55 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 08:57:45 UTC, Thomas Mader wrote: [1] http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Thanks this looks indeed like a good choice. Drop me a line if you decide to go that route I might be able to help a bit.
Re: Release D 2.069.1
On Saturday, 21 November 2015 at 08:57:45 UTC, Thomas Mader wrote: [1] http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php Thanks this looks indeed like a good choice.
Re: Release D 2.069.1
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 @Martin: In reply to https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15284#c11. I switched the installers for my workplace from NSIS to InnoSetup [1] and was very satisfied with it. In my opinion it's superior to NSIS. It might be worthwile to strive to change but I might be wrong because I never looked on the Dlang installers. [1] http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Re: Release D 2.069.1
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:18:55 UTC, 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. Bad bad bad bad situation for us. Did anyone bother to fix this? The next point release is due soon.
Re: Release D 2.069.1
On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 20:54:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 12:18:55 UTC, 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. Bad bad bad bad situation for us. Did anyone bother to fix this? Nope.
Re: Release D 2.069.1
On 11/11/2015 4:04 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 Thank you, Martin!
Re: Release D 2.069.1
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 another point release to fix: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15281
Re: Release D 2.069.1
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 allocator in win*.mak could have easily been found. > Bad bad bad bad situation for us. It's not the end of the world, but a good chance too think about how we could use nightlies or weeklies to bridge this gap. >From my side it's very simple to build tarballs, and when combined with an nice install script [¹] should work. It's more difficult to do the packaging because that relies on sensible version tags. [¹]: http://forum.dlang.org/post/n1v541$r99$1...@digitalmars.com
Re: Release D 2.069.1
On 12/11/15 2:46 AM, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/11/2015 01:18 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: This has already been talked about on D.learn. It's a very bad look especially since this is a major addition for this release. Hence why I have even mentioned this to Andrei. Well, test the beta. Both, the installer bug and the lack of allocator in win*.mak could have easily been found. I actually did, I didn't catch it 1) because most work was on Linux and 2) it was already copied. Bad bad bad bad situation for us. It's not the end of the world, but a good chance too think about how we could use nightlies or weeklies to bridge this gap. From my side it's very simple to build tarballs, and when combined with an nice install script [¹] should work. It's more difficult to do the packaging because that relies on sensible version tags. [¹]: http://forum.dlang.org/post/n1v541$r99$1...@digitalmars.com Yeah I know, its fairly simple fix, for the end user. I'm only making a big deal of it, to get the attention that we need to sort out our practices a bit.
Re: Release D 2.069.1
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 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. Bad bad bad bad situation for us.
Re: Release D 2.069.1
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 People not being able to install DMD on a fresh PC made a near-disaster for me yesterday. Thank you a lot for releasing this so soon!
