DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases

[Brad Roberts]

Lutger wrote:
> 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?

The 1.x branch is for bug fixes.  Where there's changes in Tango that 
are specifically fixing bugs in the runtime, those will likely go into 
1.x and 2.x.  However, most of the changes are restructurings, and those 
will be 2.x only.

Later,
Brad