OT: What's your favorite drink?
Clay Smith
clayasaurus at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 13:44:09 PDT 2007
Gregor Richards wrote:
> D (and DMD) desperately needs to have stable and unstable branches. The
> newest releases are always unstable.
>
> Basically, the idea behind branches is:
> * You can keep "new" code separate from tried-and-true code until it's
> ready.
> * Nobody will start writing all their library code against the unstable
> branch until it's made stable.
> * Ahura Mazda only listens to prayers of those who have stable and
> unstable branches.
>
> Since it would have branches, the unstable branch could add as many
> features as it wants, but the most important ones are:
> * LINKING AGAINST C++, JAVA AND .NET CODE. I cannot stress enough that
> D will get nowhere unless it can link against all three.
> * The unstable branch should use Tango. Phobos will be considered the
> obsolete predecessor to Phobos only.
> * The unstable branch can work on more general concepts, such as
> increasing the dynamicism of D. I'd like to see prototype-based objects
> or (optional) dynamic typing.
>
> - Gregor Richards
OT:
What's your favorite drink?
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