DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:g5555l$gji$1 at digitalmars.com...
> "Robert Fraser" wrote
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> No, Tango devs will be debugging it.  Hell, let them do the work with a 
>>> pre-release compiler.  I'll volunteer to do it.  If they determine it is 
>>> a DMD bug, they give you a minimal case, and then you go back and fix 
>>> it, or you determine that it can't be fixed for this release (with 
>>> appropriate bugzilla entry logged).
>>
>> This is a bad idea. Why not just release it and let the whole community 
>> test it? After all, there is a "stable" version of the 1.x branch, the 
>> newer releases are all possibly breaking.
>
> Tango is 1.x only.  It is the new releases in the stable branch (e.g. 
> 1.032) that break Tango.  When a new release in a stable branch breaks 
> something, it's by definition, not stable :)
>
> For 2.x, I agree, because it's not a release anyways.  It's just a 
> pre-release until 2.x is blessed.
>

I think what Robert means is that on the DMD download page there's typically 
a less-than-most-recent version of D1 that's marked as the latest stable 
version of D1.