State of Play

Denis Koroskin 2korden at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 06:31:36 PDT 2009


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:23:29 +0300, TomD <t_demmer at nospam.web.de> wrote:

> ValeriM Wrote:
>
> [...]
>>
>> No. It's not stable.
>> Try to build last Tango and DWT releases with D1.041 and you will get the problems.
>>
> But not because of D1.0. It is because of the Tango team
> introducing a couple of breaking changes. Frank is working on
> updating DWT (or has even fixed that already, not sure)
>
>> That is the causes a lot of people ask such questions. And I too. Not because D1.0 dead-end. But because I can't understand what is "stable" toolset and how long it would be "stable". D+Tango+DWT is a good example.
>>
> Yeah, but that is life. At some point you need
> to  change APIs, and then you need to revise the "downstream"
> libraries. That takes some time. This no question of dead-end.
>
> Ciao
> TomD
> 

True. That's why Tango provides bundles which include compiler and the library in both source and binary form. Bundles exist for stable and trunk revisions and I have never got any problems using them.




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