DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 16:23:16 PDT 2007


Brad Roberts wrote:
> (moved from digitalmars.D.announce since I'm gonna guess that this will 
> spawn a rather large thread)
> 
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Bug fixes. New (and very modest) C++ interface. Library module overhauls by
>> Andrei Alexandrescu. Brad Roberts is working behind the curtain to get phobos
>> development much better organized.
> 
> In addition to better organized, over the next several releases of the 2.x 
> compiler and it's associated runtime and phobos libraries, you can expect 
> to see incremental work towards rationalizing a number of the differences 
> between dmd's phobos, gdc's phobos, and tango's compiler runtime layers 
> for dmd and gdc.
> 
> I'm not committing to a specific order or timeline at this point, just 
> that the work has started.  The unittest fixes in this release were a 
> direct result of me getting my hands dirty.
> 
> More soon,
> Brad
> 

Great, thank you for your work. I have one question: can you comment on 
what will / might happen to the 1.x branch? Is there an intent to make 
it compatible with Tango eventually, or is that a 2.x only thing?



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