dmd 2.057 release

[Bill Baxter]

Chrome and Firefox both have several different auto updating versions. For
Chrome there's stable, beta, dev channel, and canary (which is basically a
nightly build). So there are lots of opportunities for bugs to be found by
developers before they go live in the stable release channel.

--bb
Sent from my Android.
On Jan 4, 2012 1:43 AM, "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-01-04 00:02, Sean Cavanaugh 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 don't install nightly builds, do they?
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>
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