Download page and D docs defaulting to D2

[Alexander Panek]

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> 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. 
>
>

Again: YES PLEASE. 

I've already made two requests in that regard and both have been pretty
much ignored. I don't see any point in distributing an outdated compiler or
promotingD 2.x as "current" version. As Jarrett said, it is everything but stable
or complete.
-- 
Alexander Panek