D 1.076 and 2.061 release

[Pierre Rouleau]

On 13-01-07 7:49 AM, Matthew Caron wrote:
> On 01/06/2013 10:18 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
>> On 13-01-06 9:45 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Sunday, January 06, 2013 21:22:18 Pierre Rouleau wrote:
>>>> Is this something that the most influential people in the D project
>>>> want
>>>> to fix?
>>>
>>> What exactly do you want fixed?
>>
>> Really, I would like to be able to start using D at work. And be in a
>> position to be able to convince people to use it.
>
> However, this does take a
> certain amount of buy in from your company management.

It does, and from other people too.

> Luckily, one of
> the company founders was an early embracer of Linux.
>
It's not the case for my situation.

The worst part I see is that bug fixes and new feature introductions are 
lumped together inside releases. Combined with the fact that the 
development is not predictable means that if you develop products with D 
you have to keep updating it.  If you get stuck with a bug and wait for 
the release that fixes it, when that release comes out it could very 
well bring new language features that break the code that you have 
already written.

It would be nice to have bug fixes separated from new feature 
introductions by having major and minor releases and branches for these 
releases.  Contributors of a release could backport bug fix in the 
release they use if that was required by their project using the now old 
compiler version.

Of course I realize that this means more overall work, more people, 
someone or a set of people in charge of release management, etc...



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/Pierre Rouleau