What's a commercial user to do??? (was: Re: DMD 1.001 release)

[Chris Miller]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:01:55 -0500, Georg Wrede <georg at nospam.org> wrote:

> Oskar Linde wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> New pointer-aware GC.
>>  Unfortunately, the new GC results in segfaults for me.
>
> If one of the motives for a 1.0 release was to remove obstacles for  
> using D in for-profit programming, the above quote blows it away.
>
>
> What the Real User (as opposed to us, groupies, DIYs or academics)  
> needs, is a surefire way to recognize which release to use for his  
> paying customers!
>
> This could be as simple as dividing the Change Log page into Stable and  
> Unstable releases. And/or deciding on a numbering scheme. Or something.

Agreed! Perhaps the "D 1.0" should be a fork that only includes fixes.

Also, D and DMD seem to be used interchangeably; there should be a  
distinction. Not all D implementations have everything DMD has. e.g.  
"What's New for D 1.0" (changelog)... well that looks like a list for  
what's new in DMD, not D the language. Not all compilers have these issues  
and features and follow all the same formats (this type of linker, that  
particular implementation of a function, OMF object files, etc).