dmd 1.069 and 2.054 release

[Daniel Murphy]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1523.1310360242.14074.digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com...
> *Sigh* I really need to kill the shortcut in my e-mail client for sending
> messages. I was about to say that an implementation of
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5481  _is_ essentially what 
> we
> need but that your example seems to show a lack of understanding of the
> feature (particularly with regards to "scheduled for deprecation" rather 
> than
> full deprecation).
>

Well, that is why I asked.  Yes, what I'm proposing is not exactly what was 
in the bug report.

The way it seems to be done, removing a feature has three stages:
1. schedule for deprecation
2. mark as deprecated
3. remove it

The point of stage 1 seems to be to warn the programmer that some time in 
the future they're going to need -d to compile their code.  I'm really not 
convinced that this message should always be displayed, as most of the time 
it's useless noise.  It does however make sense to print it out when 
compiling with -v or generate a warning when compiled with -w (or -wi).

Then again, maybe 'scheduled for deprecation' is something that should be a 
lower level than warning. (If D had warning levels)  In this case it should 
still only print with -v or -w.