DMD 1.030 and 2.014 releases

[Robert Fraser]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Chris Wright wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> When you say "nobody" are you suggesting that the D community should 
> create a 1.1 branch and release it whether Walter wants it or not?
> 
> --bb

That's a good idea (I don't think Walter would be against it; but he 
certainly doesn't have the time to maintain 3 branches). I suspect it 
would be of GDC, though; since DMD's backend is closed-source.