Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, December 09, 2012 16:33:44 Walter Bright wrote:
> It's time to do a release; to that end we should be working on tidying up
> the regressions.

Can we please get dmd pull# 1287 ( https://github.com/D-Programming-
Language/dmd/pull/1287 ) resolved before the next release (preferably by 
merging it)? If we don't, and we merge it later, then we'll have added the -di 
flag for nothing, causing people to start using it and then stop after the 
2.062. I think that it would be best if we did not cause that sort of churn, 
and I think that making deprecated warn by default will cause us far fewer 
problems with deprecated in the future and help us avoid breaking people's 
code when we actually have to change APIs for whatever reason. As it stands, 
deprecating _anything_ breaks code, which makes deprecated useless if we 
refuse to ever break people's code. With the pull# 1287, that would no longer 
be the case. Given how much you hate breaking users' code, I'm kind of 
surprised that you haven't merged it already. But regarldess, given the flag 
issue, I think that it should be settled before the next release rather than 
waiting.

- Jonathan M Davis