dmd 2.057 release

[Andrew Wiley]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Sean Cavanaugh
<WorksOnMyMachine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 1:25 PM, 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.
>
>
> Well there is always the google (and mozilla) route of force-feeding the
> latest binaries to everyone :)

They can get away with that because their users don't really care
about versions. As long as Chrome starts and browses when I want it
to, I don't care whether Google pushes updates out behind my back.
Development tools are a different game because versions introduce
breaking changes and silently changing versions will just create a
horde of angry developers.