Hey don and Walter feel version numbers in bugzilla are useless. Thoughts from Phobos devs? See discussion in dmd beta list for background.
Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Steve Schveighoffer <[email protected]> Date: June 10, 2010 5:55:58 PM EDT To: Discuss the dmd beta releases for D <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [dmd-beta] dmd 1.062 and 2.047 beta Reply-To: Discuss the dmd beta releases for D <[email protected]> ----- Original Message ---- From: Walter Bright <[email protected]> Right. I think Don made a pretty good case. One thing he didn't mention is that there are too many version numbers, adding two more each month makes the list completely impractical sooner or later. impractical how? I can manage it just fine. If I want to find all D2 bugs, I just select the first D2 version, then shift click the last version. It takes all of 5 seconds. What's happening now is, people are selecting 'future', or I guess now they will select 'D2', and then report their compiler/phobos version in the report text, which is much harder to search for. How would I search for bugs reported before or since some version? Going by date doesn't work, as I've said before. People do not update their compilers often, as the process is somewhat of a pain. I don't know what the resistance is to having more information... Do others besides Don and you feel the version numbers have no value? Namely, I'm asking phobos developers who fix bugs, not dmd developers. -Steve _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
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