What's the current state of D?

Leandro Lucarella llucax at gmail.com
Sun May 10 14:38:07 PDT 2009


Brad Roberts, el 10 de mayo a las 10:12 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> 
> > How many people is using that? How bad would it be to call the next
> > version of DMD that include the Tango/Druntime runtime D 1.100 or
> > something (is really hard to pick right version numbers under the version
> > scheme you use[*]) to make clear there is compatibility break in that
> > version?
> > 
> > [*] I really wonder how would you call D2 when it's stable. You will just
> >     say D 2.134 is D2 final/stable? I think this is another problem with
> >     D, version naming is really confusing and lame. You can't know
> >     anything from a D version number. And DMD compiler and D specs are too
> >     much coupled. It would be nice to have separate version numbers if you
> >     really want to encourage some kind of D standard and compiler vendors
> >     to start making D compilers.
> 
> For what it's worth, there's at least one other major product that follows a
> similar versioning scheme.. mysql.

At least MySQL uses major, minor, and patchlevel version numbering scheme
;)

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