dmd 2.065 beta 1 #2

[Dejan Lekic]

On Tuesday, 21 January 2014 at 22:22:01 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> Due to building an packaging requirements and a need to address 
> the concerns of the community, I changed the naming convention 
> for this and all future releases.
>
> The following is our new naming convention:
>
> 	major.minor.qualifier
>
> Examples follow:
>
> 	#.###.b#  ==> 2.065.b1  // beta
> 	#.###.rc# ==> 2.065.rc1 // release candidate
> 	#.###.0   ==> 2.065.0   // initial release
> 	#.###.#   ==> 2.065.1   // hotfix
>
> Consequently, the name for the previously announced beta has 
> changed. Additionally, installers were prepared and made 
> available. They are as follows:
>
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.b1.zip
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.b1.dmg
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.065.b1-0_i386.deb
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.065.b1-0_amd64.deb
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.065.b1-0.fedora.i386.rpm
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.065.b1-0.fedora.x86_64.rpm
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.065.b1-0.openSUSE.i386.rpm
> 	ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.065.b1-0.openSUSE.x86_64.rpm
>
> For a description of these packages, visit 
> http://dlang.org/downloads.html.
>
> Note: An installer is not yet prepared for Windows.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew

It would be nice, IMHO, to have release information in the same 
fashion VisualD does it. Check: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases . 
Notice that each release has changelog. -Very nice and 
professional I think.