On 8/30/2013 6:41 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Morning all,
It has been about 3 months since the last release of the D front-end
implementation. Three years experience and carrying out over 100 merges into
GDC tells me that each time the development cycle starts edging towards it's
fourth month, it makes things an absolute nightmare, in both the time consumed
merging in the changes, and with time spent tracking down bug reports for
unittests/testsuite cases that test backend code generation - with 2.060, 2.061
and 2.063 being the worst releases I have ever had to deal with - before 2.060
the release schedule (if it even qualifies as a 'schedule') was anywhere between
1-2 months.
So I would want to give everyone on the dev team a kick and get the alpha/beta
out the door.
Across D/Druntime/Phobos, there are currently 26 open major bugs since
28/05/2013.
http://bit.ly/173WrZf
18 open critical bugs.
http://bit.ly/16WkhcM
5 blockers.
http://bit.ly/18q1pkC
And 14 regressions.
http://bit.ly/15pLzVb
I think it's a good idea.
The only further enhancement I really want to get in this release is DLL support
for Linux.
