On Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 13:08:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
It's an imperfect system, and we do our best with what we know,
whom we work with, and what we believe. We all have the same
goal. To be frank - relax. There's no reason to get overly
combative over this.
I am really glad to hear that you at least accept it is imperfect
system. Beg my sincere pardon if my comments sound hostile, it is
very hard to keep the right balance between being polite and
actually breaking the comfort zone.
You don't answer the question though - why adopting widely used
release processes to address this is not an option for D? Do you
see any hidden issues there?
Yes but we get back to the binary notion that you seem to
endorse: every breakage is as bad, and any breakage creates a
precedent for any other breakage. I disagree with this.
As I have already said, I have never said that "any breakage
creates a
precedent for any other breakage". It is more like "any
breakage marks release as breaking".
This view would ignore all progress we've made in improving
stability.
Because for me personally there have been no improvements in
_release_ stability. Overall compiler quality has increased
tremendously, but process stays roughly the same. I am sorry to
say this.
