[dmd-beta] D2 beta status

[Walter Bright]

On 2/14/2012 6:22 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:44:28 +0100, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

The big problem with the import fixes was the inadequate test suite, which 
failed to reveal that the fixes fundamentally did not work.