D versionning

[Adam Wilson]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:58:14 -0700, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 7/12/2012 3:40 PM, Patrick Stewart wrote:
>> Most ridiculous thing about D is that it breaks so much backward  
>> compatibility that people just give up using it. Decent versioning like  
>> this might help people stick to something.
>>
>> Wake up, guys, it is 10+ years and *still* it haven't reached some form  
>> of stable release.
>>
>> Like I sad, engineering failure.
>>
>
> We did do a stable release, D1, and there were plenty of complaints that  
> D1 did not get new features.
>
> Also, all the released versions of D are available for download. There  
> is no need to constantly download the latest if that disrupts your  
> projects.
>

And with the comming deprecation of D1, what then?

Going backwards is almost never the answer with D2, the bugs are almost  
always still there.

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Adam Wilson
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Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
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