Agenda

v2.065 (Mar 2014)

This release focuses on reducing the ICE list.

DMD

fix export DIP45

Get the DIP approved by Walter. Prototype an implementation to find further issues.

complete "Cross-module template overload" feature

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2417

complete DIP42 feature

• https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2467 (Compiler)
• https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/371 (Webpage)

Related

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2559

Allow lazy evaluation in manifest constant initializer.

introduce "uniform construction" syntax

Because it is already approved by Andrei.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1356

fix Issue 10985 - function inlining

This depends on fixing some codegen bugs
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2561

Druntime

high-level shared library support

Initial work in pull request #617. Need to improve the API of the Library wrapper.

Phobos

Reduce dependency hell, split up huge modules to enable fine-grained imports.

Upgrade std.regex to make use of new std.uni.

The goal is to reuse public APIs and to get rid of the old internal Unicode implementation. This would de-bloat Phobos and put std.uni to some serious performance test. The fork: https://github.com/blackwhale/phobos

Rework std.variant's Algebraic (ADTs)

• add compile-time checking that all possible types are handled by user code
• allow recursive data types

Other

automate release builds

• Nick Sabalausky wrote a release tool.
• Brad Roberts added install targets to the makefiles (dmd, druntime and phobos).
• Nightly builds from the autotesters
• Reusing existing makefiles is preferred
• Package scripts must build from source (see Issue 10710)
• Dejan Lekic made a Fedora SPEC file
• Multi-arch cross-compiler should be optional (more dependencies/bigger size for rarely needed feature)