digited Wrote: > Walter Bright Wrote: > > > The main purpose of this is to correct a couple of regressions that were > > blocking QtD and Tango. > > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.050.zip > > > > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html > > http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.035.zip > > > > Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update. > > Thank you for this release, and thank you for small commits to SVN! > > The only thing that is missing from a good release procedure is > _release_candidates_. Please, Walter, do not hurry with releases! With DMD in > SVN, it will be totally ok to do releases by one in 1-2 months, the main > problem is that the developers don't have any time to actually test the new > release. The bugs are found, but it's too late and they need to wait for new > release, with new _features_ and thus, with _sudded_ release, new bugs and > breaking changes (even in D1, yes). > > You can totally eliminate this kind of problems with posting not a "Here's a > new complete release! Now you can test it, but you won't get any fixes until > next one", but a _release_candidate_, make an SVN branch for it and let > developers (of QtD, Tango and lots of other projects) to test the candidate > and report bugs to you. Be sure, after a week of testing, while you can work > on next release and new features in trunk, the release branch will really > become ready for a _stable_ release, when noone will have to complain about > blocker bugs. > > Please, Walter, do not hurry with releases, make release candidates and wait > for bug reports, apply fixes to the release branch and then make a really > good release, no matter not so often! > > Thank you.
Yeah I totally agree here. This release was intended to fix Tango, but there are 2 more regressions that are not fixed: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3397 http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3401
