Bug 18308 – __VERSION__ insufficient; should also have __VERSION_MINOR__ and __VERSION_PATCH__ (eg 2.078.1)

__VERSION__ insufficient; should also have __VERSION_MINOR__ and __VERSION_PATCH__ (eg 2.078.1) or simply: __VERSION_FULLY_QUALIFIED__ for 2.078.1 and 1.7.0 also, how do we get __VERSION_LDC__ ? eg for ldc 1.7.0 ?

actually a `__traits(version_fully_qualified)` would be preferable to avoid introducing all those keywords.

There's std.compiler: https://dlang.org/phobos/std_compiler.html e.g. https://run.dlang.io/is/IJUmFt Patch releases should only fix bugs, so the only the latest should be considered for developers (though yep, that's not exposed atm). Also we are about to to switch to SemVer soon, so we should be careful to jump into anything at the moment: https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected] > also, how do we get __VERSION_LDC__ ? eg for ldc 1.7.0 ? That's something you will need to ask the LDC people.

I think we should close this as WONTFIX or invalid because std.compiler already provides this for you and there's nothing actionable for DMD in this issue.

No this issue is valid. conditional compilation should work for testing the patch. I actually DO have a case where making te difference between 2.079 and 2.079.1 would be useful (feature limited in the release and unlimited in the patch because the patch includes a REG fix). We have no way to do that for now.

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