Backporting

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Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
> news:fd8gnt$149q$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > I'd like to see some useful small things be backported from 2.x to 1.x, 
> > like foreach(i; 2 .. 8).
> >
> > (In the Python language the future Python V.2.6 will probably be a release 
> > to backport as much as possible).
> 
> No, see, the entire purpose of the split between 1.0 and 2.0 is that 1.0 
> won't get any new features.  It's a done deal.  All new features now go into 
> 2.0. 
> 
> 
and the worst is, that the libraries such as tango etc. offer version 2.0