Bug 1218 – Need to automate updating of std.compiler
Status
RESOLVED
Resolution
FIXED
Severity
major
Priority
P2
Component
phobos
Product
D
Version
D1 (retired)
Platform
All
OS
All
Creation time
2007-05-07T07:59:00Z
Last change time
2014-02-16T15:21:55Z
Assigned to
bugzilla
Creator
smjg
Comments
Comment #0 by smjg — 2007-05-07T07:59:44Z
On more than one occasion, the information in std.compiler has slipped out of date.
The very nature of std.compiler means that it _must_ be constantly kept up to date with the real compiler version. As long as it isn't, it's as bad as non-existent, if not worse. Therefore, Walter needs an automated means of updating std.compiler to the current DMD version.
The compiler version in mars.c, and therefore in the output from dmd when run with no arguments, manages to stay up to date. Is this updated manually or automatically?
- If automatically, then the solution is to make the program/script that does it update std.compiler as well while it's at it.
- If manually, then the solution is to write a program/script that updates both, and replace the versionly ritual of updating it in mars.c with a ritual of running this program.