On 7/15/12 7:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Frankly, I don't know how to do what you're asking for. D users, every
single day, clamor for:
1. more bug fixes
2. more new features
3. why aren't deprecated features removed more quickly?
4. why don't we add this breaking feature?
5. why did you add that breaking feature which broke my code?
Often, these are the same people! Sometimes, even in the same post!
And, to reiterate, we did release D1. Since its release, it has only
received bug fixes. No breaking changes, no regressions. This,
inevitably, has made many D1 users unhappy - they wanted new features
folded in.
So that was not satisfactory, either.
Yes, I do feel a bit put upon by this, as I see no way to satisfy all
these mutually contradictory requests.
I think you're conflating two different trends. One is the annoying one
you mentioned, and the other is a very reasonable request - that D has
one branch containing only bug fixes, and another branch with new
features and other potentially disruptive things.
The key is that the branches are merged once a more risky branch is
stable enough, and the essential ingredient is that git makes branch
merging easy.
This is not something you could have done essentially at any pre-github
time in D's history, and is not to be confused with D1 vs D2 or with the
known contradictory requests.
Andrei
