D versionning

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-16 02:36, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> Arguably, we've been adding too many new features (e.g. new lambda syntax and
> SIMD support), given that we're supposed to be making everything that we
> already  have work properly, but those features haven't been breaking changes,
> and presumably forcing Walter to just fix bugs wouldn't be all that pleasant
> for him. But until we've fully implemented what we have, I think that it's
> just going to slow us down to little benefit to change the release model. Once
> we have, _then_ I'd love to see a release model which promotes major vs minor
> releases and the like, because then we can evolve the language and library as
> appropriate while still maintaining stable releases which programmers can rely
> on for long periods of time without worrying about breaking changes and
> whatnot.

There are lot of other things to do than fixing bugs. For example, the 
ongoing COFF/Win64 changes. I wouldn't really consider this as a new 
feature and not really as a bug fix either. Then we have Phobos, ARM and 
tools to work on as well.

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/Jacob Carlborg