Agenda

v2.065 (Mar 2014)

This release focuses on ???.

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)