Why isn’t 2.110 published?

Don Allen donaldcallen at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 17:14:53 UTC 2024


On Friday, 25 October 2024 at 12:59:44 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Friday, 25 October 2024 at 12:48:02 UTC, Lance Bachmeier 
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> That's not the problem. A delay of three months (or however 
>> long it turns out to be) with no communication is not 
>> something you see when an open source project is healthy. It's 
>> a sign that all the contributors are focused on doing their 
>> own thing. Which of course they have a right to do, but then 
>> new users/adoption dries up. This combined with the death of 
>> GtkD and Visual D, and what appears to be a lack of new users, 
>> particularly business users, does not make a compelling case 
>> when comparing with other languages.
>
> One of Iain's goals is to get the release progress packaged up 
> into basically a single button push so that anyone can do it. 
> Once he gets to that point, we'll be able to avoid situations 
> like this. But we aren't there yet. Until we are, it's pretty 
> much on his shoulders.

It is amazing to me when I read, repeatedly

Q: Why has there been no communication about the delay of the 
2.110 release?
A: Iain is busy. That's why 2.110 hasn't been released.

It is not helpful to this project when people ask a question and 
receive an answer to a question they didn't ask.


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