Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

[Iain Buclaw]

On 16 July 2012 18:31, Adam Wilson <flyboynw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:21:39 -0700, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 16 July 2012 14:00, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:51:16 -0700
>>> schrieb "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> As it shows, the beta phase doesn't always catch all regressions in
>>> people's code, so I encourage you to do this project and eventually it will
>>> be used by GDC and other major from-source projects. By the way: Should this
>>> also later become the base for the official zip file download? IIRC Walter
>>> wanted to keep track of the DMD downloads from the main web site (no
>>> redistribution) and hotfixed versions of D could become increasingly
>>> popular.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Marco
>>>
>>
>> And what benefits would GDC get from opting to use this rather than
>> the normal releases?
>>
>
> The main benefit I could see is the faster cycle focusing on bugs. I don't
> know what GCC's release cycle is (something tells me it's pretty glacial),
> but for any users of your Git-HEAD code, the bug fixes could certainly
> appear faster.
>

It's roughly once a year, maybe a little less.  Depends on
regressions, open bugs, etc.


-- 
Iain Buclaw

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