On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:15:47 +0300, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Don" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
The standard download still points to DMD1.030 (May 2008).
A couple of hundred serious bugs have been fixed since that time.
Some of the intermediate releases had regressions which prevented many
people from using them, but I don't think that's true of this one. I
think
it's a great release.
The known regressions of DMD1.051 compared to DMD1.030 are:
2393 IFTI regression on (T:char)(T[]) vs (T:dchar)(T[])
370 Compiler stack overflow on recursive typeof in function
declaration.
3469 ICE(func.c): Regression. Calling non-template function as a
template,
from another module
but in my opinion these are not serious enough to prevent 1.051 from
being
recommended. (BTW I've already sent Walter patches for those second two
bugs).
I'd like to protect newbies from encountering internal compiler errors
which have already been fixed, and from experiencing frustration with
CTFE.
If anyone has a reason that they have to use 1.030 instead of 1.051, now
would be a great time to say why.
The only potential problem I see with that is that if you want to use
tango,
any DMD beyond 1.043 would force you to go with tango trunk, which
wouldn't
make much sense for anyone who is trying to stick with "stable" releases
of
things.
Recent poll has shown that most people use Tango trunk anyway. Perhaps,
it's time for another Tango release?
