stability

[Bill Baxter]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> I think Walter is doing a pretty good job of fixing bugs with D1, but 
>> still there are a few instances where he has seemed a little too eager 
>> to classify a fix as an enhancement, apparently so as to avoid having 
>> to port it to D1.
> 
> That isn't true at all. "Porting" changes to D1 is trivial, since the 
> code is about 98% common. The problem is there is often not a clear 
> distinction between a bug and an enhancement, and D1 cannot be a stable 
> language if it keeps getting enhancements.

If it's so easy to backport changes then why not create a 1.5x series of 
releases which are D1.x + non-breaking changes from D2?  I had figured 
the reason for not doing so was that it would take too much time.  Or is 
it the other stuff that takes too much time?  (Maintaining a separate 
version of all the web pages, etc.)

--bb