Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, December 10, 2012 13:50:47 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/10/2012 12:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > Regardless, the UDA stuff can't be in the next release.
> 
> Why? (It's being heavily used by some people.)

It hasn't even been properly worked out yet, and new features like that 
shouldn't be being introduced in the main branch. It's not at all ready for 
general consumption, and if it's in there, people are going to start using it 
and then complaining when their code breaks when we change it later. It's the 
sort of thing that should be on a separate branch and not in master. Even 
worse, if the new stable branch that we've been talking about includes this, 
then you'll have programmers programming with it for months before they get 
the updates with the design that we're actually going to end up with, meaning 
that that much more code will be written for that much longer with an 
incomplete feature, waiting to be broken when the feature is actually updated 
in the version of the compiler that they're using.

Andrei was already complaining about this was handled in the thread where they 
were introduced, and I expect that he'll agree that it shouldn't be in the 
release. It's not ready.

- Jonathan M Davis