On 03-01-2012 20:25, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/3/2012 10:55 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On 03-01-2012 19:47, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/3/2012 6:49 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
Perhaps some kind of experimental releases would be better. It could
help
getting new features out to the community (and thus tested) faster.
We call them betas <g>.
But anyone can pull the latest from github and use it, many do.
That's not very practical for most users. Some kind of
ready-to-download builds
would be much better. As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing
builds for
download would be ideal.
Using a nightly build is not very practical for most users, either,
probably the same group.
I don't know. There are many things in DMD that are far from bug-free,
and some people would like to actually use those features. So when fixes
are committed, it'd be nice to just be able to switch to a nightly build.
We have to bear in mind that while D itself is fairly mature, it is
still very much an evolving language, and thus, as is the compiler. For
this reason, sticking to a stable release is not always practical.
- Alex
