[dmd-beta] dmd 1.062 and 2.047 beta

[Don Clugston]

On 10 June 2010 18:07, Steve Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com>
>
>> That's untrue, for
>> three reasons. Firstly, and most importantly, the version information is
>> indicated by the date the bug was filed; people are almost always using the
>> latest version.
>
> The date filed is not nearly as useful as the version.  Quick, compile the code with dmd circa 5/24!  Your assumption is very wrong, people don't use the latest version often because a) it's easier not to update your code whenever a new version comes out that doesn't interest them (new features don't affect them, or bugs fixed don't affect them) or b) the newest version has some other bug that makes it unable to compile/use their code.

It really doesn't work like that. Most bugs persist for a very long
time, and are easy to reproduce.
Are your comments based on experience with finding them helpful? My
experience after looking at many hundreds of bugs is that the version
numbers are not useful at all. Really not.