Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

[Denis Shelomovskij]

10.12.2012 4:33, Walter Bright пишет:
> It's time to do a release; to that end we should be working on tidying
> up the regressions.
>
> This will be the last official D1 release.

Sorry, but I have never understand how can anybody call D stable and why 
are you doing all this "support".


Let me explain:

A long time ago I wrote one (not open source) application in D1+Tango.
I'm still supporting it. The last D1 compiler I can use is 1.066 as then 
a fatal regression was introduced and templates became unusable because 
of ICE. Am I the only one who use templates in D1? If not, what is the 
purpose for all this needless D1 releases as compiler doesn't work for 
almost any project with templates?


And let me beat utterly:

Now imagine: a person updated a compiler and get ICE. On *huge* 
codebase. What will he do? He will use old working one. But I decided to 
go further, found a DustMite and decided to find the source of the 
error. Do you know that current D2 compiler ICE-s with compiling 
DustMite? Imagine, what will feel a person when bug finding tool ICE-s a 
compiler? He will probably consider "D is a peace of unstable shit" and 
go away.

And he will be right as it is unforgivable for us to talk about any 
"stability" of D. "D is for crazy nerd who are ready to find, report and 
workaround infinite compiler bugs on any complicated code with 
templates", that's all we can tell.

But I finally managed to compile DustMite without ICE, found the 
regression and reported. Still unfixed...

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Денис В. Шеломовский
Denis V. Shelomovskij