On Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 19:58:14 UTC, Tourist wrote:
Hi guys,
I've been following the forums for a while. I'm interested in
looking into D, but I understand that currently it changes
often, and is not very reliable.
I've also read that there's a new release model planned, where
a stable version of the language is released every year or two.
Is that so? When would it take place?
What's holding you from releasing a version now and declaring
it stable for e.g. a year?
The year long support is not going to be put in place at this
time. Several took issue with that plan considering it to provide
limited/no benefit.
The core dev team is currently getting use to using a staging
branch to prepare a release.
Eventually we may see a release get patched up until the point of
the next release, but this has not yet been adopted by the core
team or those writing patches. Having a clear understanding of
what goes where has been a big point of discussion which again no
one could agree on the specifics.
