DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 10 07:08:52 PDT 2008


"Robert Fraser" wrote
> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> No, Tango devs will be debugging it.  Hell, let them do the work with a 
>> pre-release compiler.  I'll volunteer to do it.  If they determine it is 
>> a DMD bug, they give you a minimal case, and then you go back and fix it, 
>> or you determine that it can't be fixed for this release (with 
>> appropriate bugzilla entry logged).
>
> This is a bad idea. Why not just release it and let the whole community 
> test it? After all, there is a "stable" version of the 1.x branch, the 
> newer releases are all possibly breaking.

Tango is 1.x only.  It is the new releases in the stable branch (e.g. 1.032) 
that break Tango.  When a new release in a stable branch breaks something, 
it's by definition, not stable :)

For 2.x, I agree, because it's not a release anyways.  It's just a 
pre-release until 2.x is blessed.

-Steve 




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