stability

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> If it's so easy to backport changes then why not create a 1.5x series of 
> releases which are D1.x + non-breaking changes from D2?  I had figured 
> the reason for not doing so was that it would take too much time.  Or is 
> it the other stuff that takes too much time?  (Maintaining a separate 
> version of all the web pages, etc.)

Having yet a 3rd version of the language would not be helpful, 
especially in the light of the troubles over having two incompatible 
runtime libraries.