D : Not for me anymore

[Walter Bright]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> Great to hear you agree.  Before going nuts, can we discuss your 
> feelings towards actually using an externally hosted phobos (or other 
> libraries for that matter) in future dmd release tarballs?  What sort of 
> coordination would you envision?  Would you take select patches and 
> merge with your internal tree?  Abandon your internal tree?  Today you 
> release at your whim.  External development of pieces changes that model.
> 
> Assuming a community develops around an externally hosted (be it a fork 
> or the primary) version of phobos, a slightly more mature release 
> process probably ought to develop.  Maybe even introduce the concept of 
> beta versions (which might help with the paper-hat bugs like left in 
> debugging code :)  I'm willing to bet that people like Thomas would be 
> willing to give beta releases a spin.  In his case giving it a whirl 
> through dstress to find regressions before they hit the street.

I'm happy to merge things in, but am reluctant to do so without 
reviewing the diffs line by line.