Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:39:04 -0700, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 16 July 2012 18:31, Adam Wilson <flyboynw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:21:39 -0700, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 16 July 2012 14:00, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:51:16 -0700
>>>> schrieb "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> As it shows, the beta phase doesn't always catch all regressions in
>>>> people's code, so I encourage you to do this project and eventually  
>>>> it will
>>>> be used by GDC and other major from-source projects. By the way:  
>>>> Should this
>>>> also later become the base for the official zip file download? IIRC  
>>>> Walter
>>>> wanted to keep track of the DMD downloads from the main web site (no
>>>> redistribution) and hotfixed versions of D could become increasingly
>>>> popular.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Marco
>>>>
>>>
>>> And what benefits would GDC get from opting to use this rather than
>>> the normal releases?
>>>
>>
>> The main benefit I could see is the faster cycle focusing on bugs. I  
>> don't
>> know what GCC's release cycle is (something tells me it's pretty  
>> glacial),
>> but for any users of your Git-HEAD code, the bug fixes could certainly
>> appear faster.
>>
>
> It's roughly once a year, maybe a little less.  Depends on
> regressions, open bugs, etc.
>

In other words, glacial. :-) But, if it's of interest to you to use the  
stable releases as a basis for GDC we wouldn't mind.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/