D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 18:47:29 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-12-13 17:53, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 17:22:48 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> >> On 2011-12-13 14:52, Don wrote:
> >>> On 10.12.2011 22:19, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>>> In order to increase focus and unity in the language, we are
> >>>> discontinuing support for D1 on December 31, 2012. That's more
> >>>> than
> >>>> one
> >>>> year away, which gives enough time to D1 users to migrate
> >>>> libraries
> >>>> and
> >>>> applications to D2.
> >>> 
> >>> I thought we had moved away from these kinds of unilateral
> >>> decisions.
> >>> I strongly oppose this decision. In particlar, I find the lack of
> >>> community consulatation deplorable.
> >> 
> >> Apparently not, when Andrei really wants something he just decides
> >> without consulting the community.
> > 
> > Well, he _did_ say that he and Walter discussed it, so it's not like
> > Andrei is deciding this on his own. No, it was not a community
> > decision, but our resident BDFL (Benevolent Dictator for Life) decided
> > it, and he's the one in charge of the compiler.
> > 
> > Maybe they should have discussed it with us some first, but I'm not sure
> > how much difference that would have ultimately made. Most of the D2
> > people would have been completely fine with it, if not welcomed it,
> > whereas those who use only D1 would not only have been against it, but
> > they probably wouldn't have been on this list to discuss it in the
> > first place. It's only the people who use both which would have been
> > around to complain about it.
> 
> Exactly, and why do you think no D1 users are on this list?

At least as far as people discussing anything, I don't think that there are 
very many people on this list who use only D1, because pretty much all of the 
discussions relate to D2. There's no discussion of D1 topics. So, while there 
may be D1-only users who lurk, or there are D1 people who discuss D2 here but 
never use it, I don't see how there could be much in the way of D1-only people 
in this list. Sure, there may be plenty of people who use both D1 and D2, but 
this list is quite D2-centric in general.

- Jonathan M Davis