Who favors the current D1 situation?

[Denton Cockburn]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:51:48 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
>> I'm a D 1.x user who's ready to try D 2.x.  My only problem is that I use
>> Tango, so I wait patiently.  I'm ok with D 1.x being very stable and only
>> including fixes of obvious bugs.  Should there be something between a very
>> stable 1.0xxx and 2.x?  Maybe.  I guess the question is how much stability
>> is desired?  Why not move to 2.x now that const is stable?
> 
> A) I've got 200,000 lines to port in order to move to D2.x
> 
> B) I'm pretty unenthusiastic about const now.
> 
> C) I want _some_ stability.  Breaking changes can be introduced into 2.x 
> at any time.  And I think it's best that way.  Walter should feel 
> completely free to break anything he sees fit to break in the D2 tree.
> 
> 
> --bb

Is there that much required in moving from D1 to D2?
IMO, The biggest thing (and forced) is strings.
Most of the other things are optional (I guess that will change later when
const pervades the library)

- diboss

(whose ~7000 lines of D code is feeling mighty inadequate to Bill's 200K)