Front-end release.NEXT

[Walter Bright]

On 8/30/2013 6:41 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> It has been about 3 months since the last release of the D front-end
> implementation.  Three years experience and carrying out over 100 merges into
> GDC tells me that each time the development cycle starts edging towards it's
> fourth month, it makes things an absolute nightmare, in both the time consumed
> merging in the changes, and with time spent tracking down bug reports for
> unittests/testsuite cases that test backend code generation - with 2.060, 2.061
> and 2.063 being the worst releases I have ever had to deal with - before 2.060
> the release schedule (if it even qualifies as a 'schedule') was anywhere between
> 1-2 months.
>
> So I would want to give everyone on the dev team a kick and get the alpha/beta
> out the door.
>
> Across D/Druntime/Phobos, there are currently 26 open major bugs since 28/05/2013.
> http://bit.ly/173WrZf
>
> 18 open critical bugs.
> http://bit.ly/16WkhcM
>
> 5 blockers.
> http://bit.ly/18q1pkC
>
> And 14 regressions.
> http://bit.ly/15pLzVb

I think it's a good idea.

The only further enhancement I really want to get in this release is DLL support 
for Linux.