Download page and D docs defaulting to D2

Pablo Ripollles in-call at gmx.net
Wed Jan 30 02:18:18 PST 2008


Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> I've had about eight people come into the D IRC channel in the past week 
> asking why xxx was failing, or why something they thought should work 
> (constness) didn't.  In every single case, it was either because they read 
> the D2 docs, which are the default (FOR SOME REASON), and ended up 
> downloading the D1 compiler, or because they downloaded the ancient 1.015 D1 
> compiler which didn't have any bugfixes which have been implemented over the 
> past seven months.
> 
> So; this is really starting to come to a head.  I don't know how many people 
> have suggested switching the default D docs to the D1 docs.  D2 is _alpha_ 
> and should be treated as such.  We _need_ to get this resolved.
> 
> Secondly, the D1 DMD D compiler download page 
> (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/dcompiler.html) should be updated to point 
> to the very newest version of the D compiler, or those hardlinks should be 
> removed entirely and simply redirected to the changelog, which is far more 
> up-to-date and lets people know what's been fixed. 
> 
>

yes, and in the same vein, why the new book 'Learn to Tango with D', which is D1, is only announced on the D2 front page?

cheers!



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