Coming Soon: Stable D Releases!

[Adam Wilson]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:20:51 -0700, Caligo <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just curious, if Walter is too busy to make DMD more stable, then what
> does he spend most of his time on?  I thought we were done with adding
> new features to the language (at least for now)?

While COFF/x64 support for is technically a new feature, it's also one  
required for the survival of D. x86 is dead on OS X, and dying on Windows  
and Linux. So i'd say that it's pretty important for Walter to get it in  
now.

> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Monday, July 16, 2012 13:18:55 Caligo wrote:
>>> What?!
>>>
>>> All he has to do is create a branch and call it stable, or whatever,
>>> and use cherry-pick to move small stables patches from other branches
>>> to the stable branch. What's so difficult about that? I don't get
>>> it.
>>
>> It takes up his time for him to do it, and I don't think that there's  
>> any
>> chance whatsoever of him giving someone else commit access to the main  
>> dmd
>> repository to do this (certainly not at this point). He wasn't  
>> interested in
>> changing the versioning or branching stuff at all. He agreed to this  
>> plan
>> (which should be minimally disruptive to him) as an experiment.  
>> Depending on
>> how it goes, we may change how we deal with the main repo, but for now,  
>> we're
>> trying this. And since the likely alternative was that we would  
>> continue on
>> exactly as we have been, this is presumably an improvement for the  
>> folks who
>> wanted a branch with bug fixes with more frequent releases.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis


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