dmd 2.057 release

Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 11:31:25 PST 2012


On 03-01-2012 20:25, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 10:55 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> On 03-01-2012 19:47, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 1/3/2012 6:49 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>>>> Perhaps some kind of experimental releases would be better. It could
>>>> help
>>>> getting new features out to the community (and thus tested) faster.
>>>
>>> We call them betas <g>.
>>>
>>> But anyone can pull the latest from github and use it, many do.
>>
>> That's not very practical for most users. Some kind of
>> ready-to-download builds
>> would be much better. As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing
>> builds for
>> download would be ideal.
>
> Using a nightly build is not very practical for most users, either,
> probably the same group.

I don't know. There are many things in DMD that are far from bug-free, 
and some people would like to actually use those features. So when fixes 
are committed, it'd be nice to just be able to switch to a nightly build.

We have to bear in mind that while D itself is fairly mature, it is 
still very much an evolving language, and thus, as is the compiler. For 
this reason, sticking to a stable release is not always practical.

- Alex


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