D 1.076 and 2.061 release

[Pierre Rouleau]

On 13-01-03 3:11 PM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:00 PM, David Nadlinger <see at klickverbot.at
> <mailto:see at klickverbot.at>> wrote:
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>     On Thursday, 3 January 2013 at 19:36:31 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
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>         In fact, I think that _every_ item in Phobos' changelog.d was
>         lost. That information needs to be presented to users.
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>     Agreed – while it is great to finally see the manually maintained
>     list of fixed bugs being replaced with a Bugzilla query, there will
>     always be reasons for well-curated release notes to exist: they are
>     invaluable for discussing high-level changes, drawing attention to
>     (future) breaking changes, …
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>
> For example, UDA... They seem interesting, but I don't remember all the
> discussions and now that the dust settled somewhat, I'd like to know
> what's the syntax, how they are inspected.
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> I used the link Walter (http://dlang.org/changelog.html) provided and
> all I could find is http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9222
>

FWIW, you can see some info here: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/k7afq6$2832$1@digitalmars.com

> That's a bit short... How can someone coming to D today know this
> language has user-defined attributes?
>

But, yes, I agree, someone (like me) that has been watching D for long 
time, used it a very little, read the books but never actually had the 
time to use it (for all sorts of reasons), will find that the best way 
is to read the newsgroup and invest quite a bit of time.

I would say, the best thing would be to implement release notes similar 
to the way the Python project does it would be great.  I have been using 
Python for a while and I find their documentation and processes awesome.

Is there something similar for D?

/Pierre