Bug 21128 – Update of dmd-master is stopped

Status
RESOLVED
Resolution
FIXED
Severity
critical
Priority
P2
Component
installer
Product
D
Version
D2
Platform
All
OS
All
Creation time
2020-08-06T11:47:50Z
Last change time
2023-01-02T20:55:18Z
Assigned to
No Owner
Creator
SHOO

Comments

Comment #0 by zan77137 — 2020-08-06T11:47:50Z
dmd-master/dmd-nightly has not been updated since 2020-03-10. http://downloads.dlang.org/nightlies/ Based on past updates, the frequency of updates is indeterminate, but this suspension period is too long to make me suspicious. This affects a number of things, including install.sh and setup-dlang (https://github.com/dlang-community/setup-dlang). This makes it difficult for many dlang projects to keep up with the latest specifications. And probably a lot of people currently miss that dmd-master is not up to date. It should be resolved as soon as possible! Additionally, I did a search on Bugzilla and it appears that no one has reported it for five months. Since the dlang is currently very conservative and less breaking changes, it's likely that no one noticed. I'm very surprised that a critical problem with such far-reaching impact has been overlooked. Consideration should be given to operational measures to quickly detect and remedy an update failure.
Comment #1 by ibuclaw — 2023-01-02T20:55:18Z
From the install.sh script, the correct version to install is dmd-nightly. setup-dlang has been fixed since https://github.com/dlang-community/setup-dlang/pull/45