Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
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
PLEASE, when these things are reported, mark them as severity =
"regression". Even reading the bug report there's no indication that
they are regressions. Saying "it is a blocker for Tango" is NOT the same.
