DMD 1.030 and 2.014 releases

Chris Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Thu May 22 18:46:06 PDT 2008


Robert Fraser wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> What worries me is that long
>> asked-for bug fixes like this may be left out of DMD 1.0 as a way to 
>> "encourage" people to move to D 2.0.  If that happens, I'm out.
> 
> Indeed that's a fear I have as well. D 1.0 has never been fully stable 
> (look at the ".init" change that happened after 2.0 was out... that 
> broke a lot of code). So it seems rather arbitrary that a bug fix like 
> this (reported as bug, not an enhancement, before 2.0 was on the 
> horizon) would only make it to the 2.0 branch.

A lot of people have been annoyed by a lot of these changes. 
Unfortunately, nobody (and that includes the lack of me) has gotten off 
their butts to release a DMD 1.1.x branch.


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