On Monday, May 14, 2018 07:20:48 Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: > There have been 6 major releases of dmd over the last year, with > ldc trying to keep pace, currently only one release behind. This > is a big jump up from the previous release schedule, I see 2 > major releases in 2014, 3 in 2015, and 3 in 2016. > > There are obviously pros and cons to each pace, and this has been > debated internally before, with one of the ldc devs again posting > to the Internals mailing list today questioning the current speed. > > I thought I'd open it up to the community: now that you've > experienced this faster pace, as a user of the D compilers, how > do you like it? Would you prefer a slower release schedule, say > 3-4 major releases a year? > > I thought 6/year was an ambitious schedule when announced and I > wonder if it isn't putting too much strain on our few release > maintainers, maybe 3-4 releases/year would be a more gradual bump > up.
I think that most of us are fine with how it's been going, but a large percentage of the work for putting out each release goes to Martin, and he's been talking about reducing the pace to something more like one major release every 6 months, which I think would be too slow. I don't want to have to wait that long for improvements to Phobos to become available. Quarterly would be okay, I guess, but it's always frustrating when an improvement makes it into Phobos but you can't use it for months, because you have to wait for it to be released - and it's even worse when you want to then be able to build your code with ldc, since they're always behind. - Jonathan M Davis
