D-Day for DMD is today!

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 02-Sep-2015 16:23, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Dmitry Olshansky via
> Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
> <mailto:digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Because the compiler and library releases go in lockstep we'd have
>     to wait for another release cycle to even field-test @nogc. Not
>     acceptable really.
>
>     Phobos ends up battle testing every new feature and if it wasn't new
>     features will be definitely shipped in a broken state. Let's not
>     forget that new D frontend features still have many bugs that stay
>     undetected even after testing in Phobos.
>
>     --
>     Dmitry Olshansky
>
>
> Surely the compiler should always rely on the previous compiler +
> standard library versions.
>
> Is there really a valid reason not to do this? Surely if the dog food is
> so bad no one should be eating?

Anyhow I'd let compiler team decide this.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky