Is D 0.163 D 1.0?

[Don Clugston]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> John Demme wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I think the title says it all.
>>
>>
>> Has anyone recommended that 0.163 should be labelled RC1?  I think this
>> would be fair- hopefully it would focus attention from language 
>> changes to
>> finding major bugs/flaws and the "Shop's closed- let's clean up and ship
>> it" mentality.  It would tell people who are maintaining libraries to
>> bother to update them to 0.163 so they will work with 1.0.
> 
> This sounds quite reasonable.

I agree. 0.163 seems like a solid feature base to build 1.0 libraries 
around. But I wonder how long Walter will be able to restrain himself 
from adding new features; I think he'd get bored after a dozen releases 
containing nothing but bug fixes. <g>