DMD 1.030 and 2.014 releases

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

Chris Wright wrote:
> 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?
> 
> I am. There seems to be demand for it. And if there were such a branch, 
> Walter could even stop maintaining the 1.x branch because bugfixes from 
> the 2.x branch would get ported to the 1.1 branch.
> 
> This isn't ideal for the community, perhaps. If enough people were 
> involved, however, Walter would just be working on an experimental 
> branch, and the community would handle bugfixes.
> 
>> --bb

I've wanted a D 1.1 for a long time. When LLVMDC gets more stable (by that I mean to a point 
where it can compete with DMD), I could be interested in starting such a fork.