On Monday, November 19, 2012 22:55:50 monarch_dodra wrote: > Off topic: What is the release cycle of D? Seems like I've been > on 2.060 forever.
Whenever Walter feels like doing a release. Previously, we were at something like every 2 or 3 months, but that's gotten longer over the last year or two (you can look at the changelog for the actual release dates), and this particular release is delayed big time due to the addition of 64-bit Windows support. Presumably, once Walter feels that that's ready enough for release, then we'll do a release, and further releases will be closer to the 2 to 3 month mark again. However, this _is_ a good example of why we should be using branches more ( the fiasco of custom attributes being recently added to master being another good example). We could then do releases even though something as massive as 64-bit Windows support was being worked on, because that work would be on a separate branch. But it seems that Walter has never worked that way before, and he's having a very hard time adjusting to it. - Jonathan M Davis
