Self-hosting D compiler -- Coming Real Soon Now(tm)

[Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/10/14, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> If self-hosting is ever going to take off, we're gonna hafta restrict
> dmd source code to be compilable with at least the previous dmd release.
> Otherwise, we may end up with a compiler that can't be compiled unless
> you've already compiled it first.

If that's the case then we're going to have to become much better
organized. That means more frequent releases and more targeted
releases (surgically picking pulls to be merged rather than merging a
random set of pulls that may or may not break backwards
compatibility).