Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 20:32 +0100, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> On Friday, 14 December 2012 at 00:42:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > On 12/13/2012 4:17 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> >> 1. How much work would it be for the guys at Remedy Games to 
> >> convert their
> >> codebase from [] to @()?
> >
> > I don't know. All I know is it's a lot of code.
> 
> You should ask. It's really crazy to ask the WHOLE community to 
> take the bullet for some company using an experimental unreleased 
> version of the compiler without even knowing if there is a good 
> reason why they can't just fix their code.
> 
> And in any case, this is theirs problem, they should be using a 
> special version of the compiler (the one that accepts broken 
> code), not all the rest!
> 
> This is just completely crazy...

Is it really being suggested that the undefined needs of a single
organization that neither owns the language and code, nor pays the
salaries of the committers, determine the evolution of a FOSS languages?

-- 
Russel.
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