How much time will D1 be around?

[Frits van Bommel]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Frits van Bommel escribió:
>>> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>>>> Now that D2 is being developed, I don't know how much time it will 
>>>> take until it is finished. Once it is, what will happen to D1? Will 
>>>> anyone still use it?
>>>
>>> I think I might keep using it for a while yet. D2 has some features I 
>>> dislike. On the other hand, some others are very tempting...
>>>
>>>> I ask this because from time to time I like to add new features to 
>>>> Descent to improve D1 support. Semantic analysis is pretty done for 
>>>> D1, except for some bugs that are hard to fix, or at least take a 
>>>> lot of time. :-P
>>>
>>> Well, some places I'm still really missing semantic analysis in Descent:
>>> * Nested functions (their bodies don't seem to get analyzed)
>>
>> Do you have an example? It seems to work for me. Maybe you are talking 
>> about templates? These are not analyzed.
> 
> No, I'm talking about nested functions. However, trying to create a 
> small example shows that they do indeed work. Unfortunately, that's 
> definitely *not* the case in some of the files in a project I actually 
> use Descent for :(.
> I'll see if I can make some time later to reduce that project to a 
> reasonable testcase.

http://dsource.org/projects/descent/ticket/136

>>> * Mixins (functions defined by (string) mixins don't get 
>>> highlighting, don't show up in code completion, etc.)
>>
>> Again, it works for me, but this time not always (because the semantic 
>> analysis ported from DMD isn't finished/has bugs). But I tried this 
>> example:
>>
> [snip]
> 
> Again, this works for the small testcase but not in that same project I 
> mentioned above :(.
> (Those mixins also use templates to generate the strings, but again in a 
> small testcase those very same functions actually do seem to get 
> recognized...)

This one may turn out to be related to the one above, since both use the 
same renamed import which seems to be one of the triggers for that bug.