dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Ary Borenszweig (a...@esperanto.org.ar)'s article
Daniel Keep wrote:
ValeriM wrote:
Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
Mike James escribi�:
What is the state of play with D1.0 vs. D2.0?
Is D1.0 a dead-end and D2.0 should be used for future projects?
Is D2.0 stable enough for use at the present?
Is Tango for D2.0 at a level of D1.0 and can be used now?
Is DWT ready for D2.0 now?
Regards, mike.
I don't know why a lot of people see D1.0 as a dead-end. It's a stable
language. It won't get new features. It won't change. It'll probably
receive bug fixes. It works. It gets the job done. You can use it and be
sure than in a time all of what you did will still be compatible with
"newer" versions of D1.
No. It's not stable.
Try to build last Tango and DWT releases with D1.041 and you will get the
problems.
"It's a stable language."
Note the use of the word "language."
What you're referring to are bugs in the compiler. It happens.
-- Daniel
But ValieriM has a point. If I code, say, a library in D 1.041 only to
find out that in a couple of months it won't compile anymore in D 1.045,
that's not good at all. That's when someone sends a message to the
newsgroups saying "I just downloaded library Foo, but it won't compile
with D 1.045... is it abandoned? Why isn't it maintained? D1 is broken".
The point is, you shouldn't need to maintain libraries for D1 anymore.
Maybe the test suite for D1 should be bigger to cover more cases...
Yes, but there's a difference between being broken in some trivial way that
requires a few greps and a recompile and being broken in a way that requires
people to actually review and possibly redesign parts of the code to fix it. I
really don't see how the former is a big deal.
When I download a library for Java, Python or C#, I download it,
reference it and it works. If I had to fix something for it to work, I
woudldn't use it. Mainly because to fix it I'd had to understand the
code, and I just want to understand the interface.
If you have to modify a library when you download it just to make it
work (not to tweak it), that's a huge problem for me.
