[phobos] When are we going to release a beta?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday 10 February 2011 22:25:28 Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 2/10/2011 10:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 February 2011 22:06:35 Don Clugston wrote:
> >> Since the last release
> >> - A rather terrible appending regression was fixed (adequate grounds
> >> for an emergency release)
> >> - Some of the worst wrong code bugs have been fixed
> >> - A raft of other bugs have been fixed.
> >> - And we've switched to git!
> >> 
> >> I really think we should be wrapping up a release now.
> > 
> > I should probably be finishing up my latest fixes to std.datetime's docs
> > then, so that they can go out with the next release (which will be the
> > first one with std.datetime).
> > 
> > One thing that I'm wondering about though is the renaming of functions in
> > std.string to fix capitalization. There was talk of doing it, and there
> > were a fair number of changes to the functions in there, moving stuff to
> > std.array and the like, but I don't believe that any of the functions in
> > std.string have been renamed yet. I would have thought that it would be
> > desirable to rename them at the same time that so many functions were
> > moved, since then it would concentrate all of those major changes and
> > make them less painful in the long run.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> There's still a ton of things left to break in phobos.  I'm not too worried
> about trying to get them all in right now.

True enough. It's just that it's all code which is related rather than being 
completely unrelated. There is a fair bit in this release though that either 
breaks code or risks breaking it.

> I agree, let's get this release stamped out and move on to the next cycle. 
> There's already been two beta's cut during this cycle, though I agree that
> a third would be a good idea to make it clear that unless someone speaks
> up about regressions that the next step is a release.
> 
> Anyone have a good reason not to freeze checkins for the next beta on,
> saturday or sunday and hopefully release a day or two later?

Haven't all of the betas been for 64 bit only?

- Jonathan M Davis