Release process and backwards compatibility

[Jesse Phillips]

On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 03:38:13 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> How ever this will bring back e.g. the old python 2.x vs 3.x 
> divide which would be a shame. But at the same time it'll mean 
> we can do some big stuff that would just not be acceptable in 
> breaking old projects.

We don't need to go all the way over to a different language to 
learn from the past. We beat Python to it with D1. I don't think 
that was a mistake, but I think it would be now.