Backporting

[lurk]

Frits van Bommel Wrote:

> lurk wrote:
> > Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> > 
> >> "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
> >> news:fd8gnt$149q$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >>> I'd like to see some useful small things be backported from 2.x to 1.x, 
> >>> like foreach(i; 2 .. 8).
> >>>
> >>> (In the Python language the future Python V.2.6 will probably be a release 
> >>> to backport as much as possible).
> >> No, see, the entire purpose of the split between 1.0 and 2.0 is that 1.0 
> >> won't get any new features.  It's a done deal.  All new features now go into 
> >> 2.0. 
> >>
> >>
> > and the worst is, that the libraries such as tango etc. offer version 2.0
> 
> ??
> AFAIK Tango only supports 1.x ...

meant to be sarcastic.
2.x is need, but nobody supports it.