LDC 1.7.0

[Johan Engelen]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 09:38:26 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 07:40:10 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
> Scherkl wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:42:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> [...] Ubuntu 16.04
>> This is a long-term support distribution.
>> Don't expect those to have actual tip versions of any SW 
>> package!
>> They rely on stabe versions that don't have the latest features
>> but only those very well tested.
>
> The semver 1.7 is not an unstable package. Its that their 
> reason for no updates?

LDC 1.7.0 includes major changes to the frontend and is not 
well-tested.
If you want a better-tested recent LDC, I recommend LDC 1.6.0, 
which is used in production at Weka.

- Johan