[dmd-beta] D2 beta status

[Martin Nowak]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:44:28 +0100, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>  
wrote:

> At the moment, I have no idea what it is. There are scattered vague  
> reports.
>
> Can anyone with a verifiable regression from 2.057 please post it here.
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With respect to being a successor of 2.057 the changelog looks impressive.
I'm only aware of one further regression in phobos.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7476
So this would be a fairly good release for RELEASE (2.057) users.

With respect to being the release of the current development version going
back and forth between the import behavior will cause people to fix code  
they
have written since January because of reintroduced compiler bugs.
So this is going to be a disappointing release for HEAD users.

             | 2.058b4 | 2.058b4 + quickfixes | 2.058b4 + real fixing
---------------------------------------------
2.057 users |    :|   |         :|           |         :(

  HEAD users |    :@   |         :(           |         ;)

   dmd       |    :|   |         :(           |         :|



Doing a real fix would take about 2-3 days for implementation/testing and  
1-2 weeks beta.

     Import bugs: 313,314,625,1504,2401,2991,3254,5411,5412,6307,6554,7496
Protection bugs: 143,1161,1238,1441,1754,2225,2775,2830,6180