[dmd-internals] 3rd Biweekly Sprint Planning

[David Nadlinger via dmd-internals]

On 10 Aug 2015, at 18:30, Martin Nowak via dmd-internals wrote:
> With the 2.068.0 out the door let's look ahead and plan the next 2 
> weeks.

I'd appreciate if we could have another look at struct lifetime 
handling. The whole argprefix business introduced in 2.067 made life 
more difficult for LDC, and does not seem to be anywhere near complete: 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14903

Since the template emission is still being discussed, I'd also like to 
draw attention to the following regression: 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14901

As you can probably guess from my GitHub feed and bug reports, I'm 
currently spending most of my D time on making DMD/LDC 2.067 work for 
one of our corporate users. Thus, I can't really make any big picture 
plans as far as I am concerned. Focusing on DDMD exclusively for 2.069 
seems like a workable plan, although I'd really like to see some of the 
long overdue big issues (e.g. 314) fixed soon. The amount of unintended 
regressions those cause in big code bases on every release is 
staggering. Just about *every* fix for them, no matter how disruptive 
they might seem, would still be a giant step over having to deal with 
related fallout on every single compiler update. Backwards compatibility 
for new compiler releases is currently an illusion when it comes to even 
just moderately sized projects.

  — David