DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases

[Bill Baxter]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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.

You meant changes in Phobos, right?

--bb