Pain when changing DMD version...

bachmeier via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 24 10:35:56 PST 2015


On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 17:17:39 UTC, JerryR wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 16:05:18 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> But 2.060 was released in 2012...
>
> Yes I know it's old but and the reason was to avoid breakage 
> that already had happened before.
>
> I know that sometimes this (Breakage) is inevitable as the 
> language grows, but my concern here is that the language isn't 
> new, and it's in version +2, and again I was changing from 
> 2.060 to 2.066... which looking now is already  lagged since 
> the new version is 2.069.
>
> JerryR.

Based on my experience you should not see much breakage going 
from 2.066 to 2.069. When I moved from 2.062 to 2.064 there were 
a lot of problems. I don't expect to see that going forward. The 
quality of releases AFAICT is much better today.


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