Bootstrapping & lts

[Joakim via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 16:05:06 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 February 2016 at 13:06:08 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Hi Colvin!
>
> ltsmaster is used for further development/bug fixing. For 
> bootstrapping, the current 0.17.x release should be used.
>
> The bootstrapping process is yet not finally settled. You 
> describe ideas I already had but I have not yet tried one of 
> them.
>
> We also had the idea to embed the compiler version used to 
> create LDC into the 'ldc2 -version' output. Again, we still 
> need to figure out how to do it.

I think it'd be a good idea to release occasional builds of 
ltsmaster too, maybe tied to ldc releases, so it's a little bit 
easier for those who want to use it.