DMD 1.028 and 2.012 releases

[Bill Baxter]

jcc7 wrote:
> == Quote from Don Clugston (dac at nospam.com.au)'s article
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.028.zip
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.012.zip
>>>
>>> Yes, you read that right, struct destructors but no struct
>>> constructors yet.
>> Missing from the D2 changelog:
>>
>> std.math:
> 
> ...
> 
>> BTW all these changes can be applied to DMD 1.0 -- at present,
>> nothing in std.math is specific to D2.0.
> 
> I agree that backwards-compatible improvements to D and Phobos should be eligible
> for inclusion into D1 (and Phobos1), but Walter disagrees.
> 
> This issue is related to the "Who favors the current D1 situation?" thread that
> Bill Baxter started today:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=67313
> 
> By the way, some of these kinds of changes to Phobos are available in std2:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/std2
> (but apparently std2 development has stopped since the port of DMD 2.008).

Yes, things like not fixing bug 493[1] in D1 have made porting to D1 too 
difficult.  I think if that bug gets fixed then I could get at least 
std.algorithms D2.012 working in D1.  I spent a few hours yesterday 
trying to port it (despite my message of abandoning std2 on the web page...)

[1] http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=493

--bb