Pain when changing DMD version...

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

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.

I would strongly recommend moving straight to 2.069. It will take 
very little extra effort compared to going to 2.066 and there's 
been a lot of improvements and bugfixes since then. Some of the 
failures to compile you're seeing might even be bugs in 2.066!