Breaking D2 language/spec changes with D1 being discontinued in a month

[John Colvin]

On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 14:34:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 13:15:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>> On 2012-11-28 13:41, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> On the other hand, many people were unhappy with my position 
>>> of "no
>>> breaking changes at all outside of clear bug fixes" to D1, 
>>> which also
>>> implied "no language enhancements". There were many 
>>> enhancements to the
>>> code generation, new platforms, etc., and many CTFE 
>>> improvements (which
>>> I more or less regarded as bug fixing). There were also no 
>>> changes
>>> allowed that affected binary compatibility.
>>
>> Please, please try and understand. It's not breaking changes 
>> in it self that is the problem. It's how they're handled.
>>
>> Many people has also talked about something in between D1 and 
>> D2, D1.5 or similar. Which would contain bug fixes and new 
>> backwards compilable changes.
>
> For what it's worth, I agree.
> blah blah blah

sorry, I mean to edit out the bit about D1.5 in Jacob's post, not 
sure I fully understand what that would mean enough to agree with 
it