Release planning for 2.063

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:45:56 +0000
Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Groovy/Grails/Gradle/Griffon (Gr8) community has gone a different
> route, necessitated by the slowness of the official Debian and Fedora
> release system and the unwillingness to support the variety of
> systems (though the MacPorts stuff always worked well). An individual
> "scratched an itch" and created a Bash/Vert.x based release and
> distribution system, called GVM. This has swept through the community
> (even Windows people) and is now the standard mechanism. New releases
> are available to all within hours and roll-back to any earlier
> release is trivial, as is having multiple releases co-resident.
> 
> I strike me that a D/vibe.d system modelled on GVM, must be relatively
> straightforward. The question is not so much can vibe.d compete with
> vert.x in that part of the functionality, but can D compete with Bash
> in the client functionality. In particular can the client self
> update?(**)
> 

*cough* DVM