Do we need a time-out in D evolution?

Lars Ivar Igesund larsivar at igesund.net
Wed Jun 6 12:51:27 PDT 2007


eao197 wrote:

> Here is my vision:
> 
> * I start to use D1.0 for production. In near few months Tango 1.0 will be
> released and everything is fine.
> 
> * I spend 4-5 months to port some of my tools to D and then 4-5 months
> produce and deploy some part of our system in D.
> 
> * At this time (early 2008) there is the working version of D2.0.
> 
> So after I produce some production code what will be with Tango, for
> example? Would its athors want to support and improve Tango for D1.0 and
> Tango for D2.0 at the same time? What should I do with my D1.0 code when
> D2.0 will be there? I think it is better to port my code to D2.0. But this
> means than I need yet month or more for rewritting and retesting, but not
> producing new code.

D 2.0 features will be applied to Tango where they can strengthen already
existing contracts between user-code and the library. Examples of this may
be subtle usage of const. We would expect such language related changes to
avoid breaking existing user source code. 

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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