Should D1 only bugs be closed?

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Sat Feb 9 10:04:19 PST 2013


On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 18:30 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
[…]
> Don't shoot the messenger. :)

Indeed, sorry for any such behaviour.

(I had thought of getting into some black humour about shootings but
restrained myself.)

> Walter is still working on D1, as shown:
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commits/dmd-1.x
> 
> We're all baffled as to why he's still wasting time on D1, when it was
> agreed we'd stop working on it after December 31st.

This sort of thing makes it very hard for those of is trying to market
D. There is little enough resource developing D as it is and to have
significant amount of it working on dead code, seriously undermines the
message.

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