Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

[Caligo]

Just curious, if Walter is too busy to make DMD more stable, then what
does he spend most of his time on?  I thought we were done with adding
new features to the language (at least for now)?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Monday, July 16, 2012 13:18:55 Caligo wrote:
>> What?!
>>
>> All he has to do is create a branch and call it stable, or whatever,
>> and use cherry-pick to move small stables patches from other branches
>> to the stable branch. What's so difficult about that? I don't get
>> it.
>
> It takes up his time for him to do it, and I don't think that there's any
> chance whatsoever of him giving someone else commit access to the main dmd
> repository to do this (certainly not at this point). He wasn't interested in
> changing the versioning or branching stuff at all. He agreed to this plan
> (which should be minimally disruptive to him) as an experiment. Depending on
> how it goes, we may change how we deal with the main repo, but for now, we're
> trying this. And since the likely alternative was that we would continue on
> exactly as we have been, this is presumably an improvement for the folks who
> wanted a branch with bug fixes with more frequent releases.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis