On Monday, 14 May 2018 at 07:20:48 UTC, Joakim 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 have nothing against releasing that often as long as there is a
LTS version, and that is where the problem lies - we do not have
it. So what I do is simply base my production code on particular
release, and every few months allocate few days job to try to
bring the code up-to-date with latest DMD.
