dmd 1.050 and 2.035 release

[Don]

Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> digited Wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>
>>> The main purpose of this is to correct a couple of regressions that were 
>>> blocking QtD and Tango.
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.050.zip
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.035.zip
>>>
>>> Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.
>> Thank you for this release, and thank you for small commits to SVN!
>>
>> The only thing that is missing from a good release procedure is _release_candidates_. Please, Walter, do not hurry with releases! With DMD in SVN, it will be totally ok to do releases by one in 1-2 months, the main problem is that the developers don't have any time to actually test the new release. The bugs are found, but it's too late and they need to wait for new release, with new _features_ and thus, with _sudded_ release, new bugs and breaking changes (even in D1, yes).
>>
>> You can totally eliminate this kind of problems with posting not a "Here's a new complete release! Now you can test it, but you won't get any fixes until next one", but a _release_candidate_, make an SVN branch for it and let developers (of QtD, Tango and lots of other projects) to test the candidate and report bugs to you. Be sure, after a week of testing, while you can work on next release and new features in trunk, the release branch will really become ready for a _stable_ release, when noone will have to complain about blocker bugs.
>>
>> Please, Walter, do not hurry with releases, make release candidates and wait for bug reports, apply fixes to the release branch and then make a really good release, no matter not so often!
>>
>> Thank you.
> 
> Yeah I totally agree here. This release was intended to fix Tango, but there are 2 more regressions that are not fixed:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3397
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3401
PLEASE, when these things are reported, mark them as severity = 
"regression". Even reading the bug report there's no indication that 
they are regressions. Saying "it is a blocker for Tango" is NOT the same.