D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-13 20:24, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 17:47:30 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> If I recall correctly Walter has said he will continue to support D1
>> as long as there are users.
>
> Will you really be still using D1 one year from now? Even then, why
> would you need official ongoing support from DigitalMars so much?

Well, I don't know. I don't think D2/Phobos is usable in its current state.

> For some perspective: the move to GitHub was less than one year ago. I
> was actually surprised of this when I revisited D's history recently,
> since it felt like a lot longer. The relative amount of progress done in
> this year alone is staggering.
>
>> Apparently not, when Andrei really wants something he just decides
> without consulting the community.
>
> Sorry, but demanding that others spend their time to serve a minority
> when that time could be better spent to serve a majority seems rather
> selfish to me.

I think it's selfish to decide for the hole community.

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/Jacob Carlborg