State of the Compiler

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 17:06:21 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 March 2016 at 16:57:41 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
>> Specifically not to add anything, since we want to ensure that 
>> DMD 2.73.0 compiles with DMD 2.70.0 through DMD 2.72.x.
>
> Why is this important? Cant you lock DMD2.x to DMD2.70.x 
> (back-porting bug fixes)?

Back-porting bug fixes requires resources/manpower the compiler 
team doesn't have. They don't have enough manpower to keep with 
with the current bugs, let alone adding extra work to each fix by 
targeting two code bases.