When will D1 be finished?

Stewart Gordon smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Tue May 12 10:57:16 PDT 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> Luís Marques wrote:
>> When D1 was declared finished I thought it meant it would progress to 
>> a stable state, with nearly all non-minor problems fixed and a large 
>> set of companion libraries. I'm afraid I don't see that happening at 
>> an animating rate.
> 
> D1 regularly gets around 20 bug fixes a month. I don't understand why 
> this is not seen as progress to a stable state. About 80% of bug fixes 
> are common to both D2 and D1.

Doesn't the d1.0blocker list speak for itself?

Moreover, Robert has taken the words out of my mouth about why my point 
(a) is most important.  With the amount of time that has passed since 
DMD 1.00 was released, people would have expected the language spec to 
be at a stable state by now.

Stewart.



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