Why no stable LTS releases?

Imperatorn johan_forsberg_86 at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 14 07:10:41 UTC 2021


On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 01:47:51 UTC, Mathias LANG wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 June 2021 at 13:06:20 UTC, sighoya wrote:
>> I've heard the complaint all the time, and I'm asking myself 
>> what the problem actually is with stable long term releases?
>> It would be better not to break every two months and instead 
>> have schedules for bugfixes, non-breaking features and 
>> breaking features.
>> It very much resembles that idea given in: 
>> https://gist.github.com/mdparker/ab61a1309752905cf93acb2653c50beb
>> Btw, what is actually the state of this dip?
>>
>> Your opinions?
>
> We have an LTS. It's called GDC. Iain have done a great job at 
> maintaining it. You see it in the upstream repositories as 
> `dmd-cxx` (yes it's still using C++ for the frontend).

Well, this is actually true. But I get the feeling he meant dmd?


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