On 07/12/2015 09:50 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Hi,
Out of curiosity, how many projects are still supporting D 2.064.2
compiler/runtime? Granted that this is the version shipped in the current
Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS (which will be supported until 2020).
I'm both interested in how much willingness, and how much awareness there
are around maintaining versions that are shipped with an OS whose combined
market share potentially make up for 50% of all Linux Servers.
Dunno about Ubuntu, but anyone who uses Debian Stable without pretty
much *expecting* everything in the repos to be two years behind (and
therefore needing to occasionally install things manually) is begging
for a very rude awakening.
Besides, manually grabbing an up-to-date DMD is trivial. And then
there's DVM, too.
I do very much prefer to support DMDs as far back as I can in my
projects, and I generally try to, but I often hit situations where
continuing to support an older DMD (even a mere two versions behind)
just isn't realistic. (And it becomes even more unrealistic when
balanced against the ease of manually grabbing a newer DMD and spending
merely a few minutes - if any - updating a codebase.)
Currently, 2.066.1 is the oldest I'm able to support in the latest
versions of my projects.
