• 12345swordy (4/4) Jul 01 2020 Having it as a sub module allows walter to full speed ahead
• Steven Schveighoffer (6/9) Jul 01 2020 The entire D CI ecosystem is based on dmd. If this weren't the case, it
• Walter Bright (7/10) Sep 29 Fortunately, Nick Wilson has been very pro-active in approving my PRs fo...

12345swordy <alexanderheistermann gmail.com> writes:

Having it as a sub module allows walter to full speed ahead 
without waiting for Pull request approval. I don't see other 
backend developers active besides walter here, on github.


-Alex

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:

On 7/1/20 2:06 PM, 12345swordy wrote:
 Having it as a sub module allows walter to full speed ahead without 
 waiting for Pull request approval. I don't see other backend developers 
 active besides walter here, on github.

The entire D CI ecosystem is based on dmd. If this weren't the case, it 
would be fine, but it's not.

In other words, we need to keep DMD building properly and working as 
designed, even if there is only one developer working on DMD backend.

-Steve

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 7/1/2020 11:06 AM, 12345swordy wrote:
 Having it as a sub module allows walter to full speed ahead without waiting
for 
 Pull request approval. I don't see other backend developers active besides 
 walter here, on github.

Fortunately, Nick Wilson has been very pro-active in approving my PRs for the 
AArch64 backend, without running any sort of AArch64 tests. Because there
aren't 
any AArch64 tests yet.

The only requirement he imposes is it doesn't break anything.

This special case for approvals enables me to keep the AArch64 work completely 
in sync with the dmd master code.