[Dlang-internal] dmd semver experiment

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue May 15 15:17:04 UTC 2018


On 5/13/2018 12:27 PM, Johan Engelen wrote:
> I feel currently the project is racing at too high speed pumping out releases, 
> at the cost of quality and carefulness that I feel is appropriate for 
> compiler/language development (adding to existing quality-of-implementation 
> problems).
> Thus I am very much in favor of major releases every half year (or longer), with 
> only minor releases in-between that do not add new features or language changes.

There's always a tension between people needing things now and being 
conservative. Additionally, a lot of regressions have come from bug fixes.

The best I can do is if you post a list of the bugzilla regressions most irksome 
to you, we can prioritize them.


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