[D2] How to not full closure?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 4 10:02:33 PDT 2008


"Bill Baxter" wrote
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Steven Schveighoffer
>> "Bruno Medeiros" wrote
>>> I wish there wasn't a need or desire to maintain 1.0 compatibility, and
>>> people would move to 2.0. The sole key to this being Tango of course. I
>>> understand you have good motives for not moving to 2.0 yet, but I hope
>>> those can solved quite sooner rather later. The D community has allways
>>> been divided in two camps, but never has the "rift" been so wide and
>>> hurtful as now. :/
>>
>> We have tried.  D2 has too many blocker bugs for Tango to work properly,
>> otherwise, there would be a D2 port.
>>
>> But even if this did happen, there is no way that Tango would move to an
>> as-yet-unreleased compiler and abandon efforts on D1.  And most likely, 
>> D1
>> Tango would continue to exist because some people simply don't like 
>> const.
>>
>> I plan to move to D2 as soon as Tango can build with it.
>
> Is there a list of these Tango blocker bugs somewhere?
>
> Perhaps the list should be put into bugzilla as a meta-bug that
> references all the relevant issues in bugzilla.  I have to believe
> that if Walter had a clear idea of what the bugs blocking Tango were,
> that he would prioritize them and wipe them out within a release or
> two.

Added bugzilla number 2267 
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2267

-Steve 





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