Walter Bright, el 26 de marzo a las 14:05 me escribiste: > Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote: > >I don't necessarily want a 100% stable language. In fact I don't. But > >obviously asking for both is just silly. > >The only thing I'm not happy about is if code that used to work, still > >compiles, but no longer works. This is where the real problem is and > >I've seen it several times. MinWin, APaGeD and probably others. > > What do you suggest? > > It's why there's a "last stable version" of D1 on the website. With any > software package, if you always download the latest version but another > package was only tested with a different version, it's likely to have > problems.
This is another problem with D, the lack of a public SCM repository for, at least, the fronend. Now each DMD release is really a "nightly snapshot" without any real-world testing (I guess). That's another reason why "stable" DMD release keep breaking. If one could download a snapshot every once in a while and give it a try, most breaking changes should be detected *before* the actual release. Or maybe alpha or beta versions should be released. When I see a compiler version 1.041, I see a stable release number, not a beta, or release candidate or nightly snapshoot, but sadly that is what it is. Maybe that is a big source of confusion. Maybe an improvement on version numbering scheme can be very useful in this regard, even for people looking at D2.0, D2.032 really looks like a stable release. D2.0alpha032, for example, is really ugly but at lease looks more like an alpha release =) D1.041rc2, looks like a release candidate, not a final version, and if it breaks something, I wouldn't be as surprised as if D1.041 breaks. Anyway, I will be glad if you take a look at the D1.x series proposal =) http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D1XProposal -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
