Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

[Leandro Lucarella]

Adam Wilson, el 22 de July a las 16:05 me escribiste:
> I can't really say, but it sounds like what you are asking for is
> D2/D3, thats not really the scope of the dlang-stable project, we

Nope! What I'm talking about is D 2.1, 2.2, etc. Not D3. As somebody
said before in this thread talking about PHP, minor version changes in
the languages should only introduce backward compatible new features. D3
should be allowed to break backward compatibility while D 2.1 should
not. The same is done in Python. In Python is even allowed to break
backward compatibility in very small and are cases, like introducing
a keyword. In those cases the changes are introduced in steps, let's say
in Python 2.5 with is not a keyword and they want to convert it to
a keyword. Then in Python 2.6 you have an option to enable that
behaviour (disabled by default) and in Python 2.7 the new feature will
be enabled by default. Python 2.5.1 can only introduce bugfixes.

This is something I think D needs since ages ago[1], and I thought it was
finally here, but from what you say it doesn't like that way :S

[1] http://www.llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/post/6cac01e1#source-control-and-versioning

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