State of Play

[Sergey Gromov]

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:30:50 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> It seems to me the only people who would know which compilers deserve
>> the "stable" label are the folks using dmd on a daily basis to build
>> their software.  Yet I've never seen the question come up here or
>> anywhere else of what version of D the users find to be the most
>> stable.   My impression is frankly that Walter just arbitrarily slaps
>> the label on a rev that's about 10 steps back from current.  Probably
>> there's more to it than that, but that's what it seems like.
> 
> The current "stable" D1 is that way because it's the one that people 
> supplied me with a bundled version that has the major libraries 
> specifically tested and working with it.
> 
> I think that is a fairly reasonable definition of it.

Official stable Tango is bundled with 1.033 for a very long time
already.