On 20 July 2015 at 06:02, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > 2.068 - resolve remaining regressions and release > > 2.069 - translate to D. No new features, no refactoring. Only regression > fixes and what's already in HEAD. This should give us a solid baseline. It > also means that open PRs that address other issues will not be pulled for > 2.069. > > Perhaps we should name this 2.100, to signify such a milestone. > > 2.101+ - > 1. Take advantage of D features to improve quality. > 2. Go to full lazy semantic analysis of imports, rather than the current > "analyze them all" > 3. Rethink what "speculative instantiation" of templates means so we can > have a coherent process of compiling them. > 4. Redo CTFE interpreter so it only rarely needs to allocate memory. This > was already done for constant folding, but now it's time for the rest of the > interpreter. > 5. Get rid of reliance on the global error count. This has been mostly done, > it just hast to be finished. > 6. Convert the back end to D as well.
I just have one request. We need to designate a supported version of the compiler (2.069?) as the base to which we convert and maintain compatibility for, and do not introduce any new features after that point. Something as vague as "the last three versions" does *not* cut it. This is to give maximum time for all ecosystems to adjust, and encourage that we have a "stable" snapshot of D2 before the conversion that will receive maintenance fixes long after mainline development has switched. Iain
