D 1.0 for Jan 1, 2007

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Carlos Santander wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund escribió:
>> BLS wrote:
>> 
>>> Lars Ivar Igesund schrieb:
>>>
>>>> Björn, I might sound pessimistic, but this how how D/DMD always has
>>>> been, and Walter has yet to say how this will change to accomodate the
>>>> fact that we will have a stable release.
>>>>
>>> I still have to call myself a D newbie and so my opinion is probabely
>>> not much worth.  I guess you'll agree that there are allready a lot of
>>> goodies implemented in D. So that a nowadays written library will/could
>>> survive a few years.
>>>
>>> I would like to mention here the gnu classpath lib. (0.92) which uses
>>> the Java 1.2 language features and is (again IMO) pretty stableand
>>> usefull It also seems that the classpath guys are able to find a way to
>>> upgrade classpath to generics without "too" much pain.
>>>
>>> Kind regards Björn
>> 
>> Yes, but there Java 1.2 is a stable specification. What I am trying to
>> say, is that D 1.0 needs to be set enough in stone, so that the
>> document/webpage on it don't change on the first new release of DMD. I
>> personally don't think "Just use the compiler tagged 1.0, and you have a
>> stable environment." is good enough, because we _will_ want bugfixes, and
>> we _will_ want to use new (or test) features when they appear (or when
>> they have proved themselves), without ruining the application we spent
>> hours and hours on to get working with D 1.0.
>> 
> 
> I might be misunderstanding you, but here's what I get: starting in
> January, the DigitalMars site gets an addition section entitled "The D 1.0
> Spec" or something like that, which won't ever change. Further changes to
> DMD or new D versions have to be done in a different section/document. If
> this is what you're proposing, I strongly agree.
> 

Well, after this, Walter has stated his purpose in this matter, and it is at
least somewhere along the road where I want it :)

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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