[phobos] Any reason we're not ready for a release?

[Brad Roberts]

On 5/4/2011 11:25 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On 5/4/2011 9:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> The one thing that I'm aware of that was a problem thanks to Don's CTFE
>>> changes which I don't know whether it was fixed or not was QtD. IIRC, Max
>>> was saying that it was seriously broken earlier. There's a good chance
>>> that it's fine now, but I think that we should make sure that QtD is no
>>> longer failing to build due to the CTFE changes.
>>
>> I folded in patches to dmd requested by Qt. If there are other issues with
>> Qt, are they in bugzilla?
> 
> No, I don't believe so. I just recall that when the recent CTFE changes came 
> up in one of the threads in the main newsgroup, and I mentioned that they were 
> still broken, because my recent changes to std.datetime weren't compiling, Max 
> said that they were causing a lot of failures for QtD as well. I doubt that he 
> would have created a bug report though, given that Don was in the middle of 
> his changes. It's quite possible that it compiles fine now though. I just 
> think that it should be verified that the CTFE changes are now stable enough 
> that QtD is no longer failing to build because of them as it was before. Much 
> as Don's changes are definitely something that we want, they risk causing 
> serious regressions if we're not careful.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

Which is exactly why we do beta releases..