At a crossroad

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Lars T.
> Kyllingstad<public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:
> 
>> For that reason I'm not going to shout very loudly in these discussions, but
>> I get annoyed when I see people complaining about D2 being a moving target.
>> After all, it comes with a big, red sticker that says "this is a moving
>> target".
> 
> I have to heartily disagree.  I can't tell you how many people have
> stumbled into the #d channel on IRC who are using D2, wondering why
> some feature X isn't working, or how to install Tango, or wondering
> why none of the libraries they've installed compile etc. etc.
> 
> It's not really surprising.  You go to http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
> and you are almost immediately pushed into the D2 spec.  All of the
> links on the left-hand side point to the D2 pages.  *Nowhere* is it
> mentioned that I can see that it's alpha- or beta-quality software, or
> that it's still under development.  All of the articles Walter,
> Andrei, and Bartosz on DDJ, blogs etc. are in reference to D2.
> 
> The end result is that many newcomers don't know anything about the
> current situation.  They don't know D1 even *exists*, or that D2 is
> under development, or that most of the D code out there probably won't
> compile with DMD2 because it's D1 code.  It's all very
> under-explained.


Good point. Maybe said sticker isn't as visible as I thought. Located on 
the underside of the compiler, perhaps, together with the serial number 
and recommended voltage range.

-Lars