On Thursday, 13 December 2012 at 16:57:10 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 00:34:33 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
It's time to do a release; to that end we should be working on
tidying up the regressions.
This will be the last official D1 release.
Two things which I think we *must* address before the release,
otherwise they will hurt us in the long run:
- https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1287
(Make deprecations as warnings the default): Recently, an
option to show deprecations as informational messages (i.e. not
halting compilation) was added to DMD. Many people, including
me, think that this should be the default behavior, but Walter
seems to be against it for pretty much unspecified reasons. If
we do not finish discussion on this before the release, but
then decided to change the default behavior in the future, this
will cause quite a bit more confusion as the "-di" switch will
already have been released then.
- Regarding UDAs: Releasing them in the current, not very
well-tested state might not be the best idea, because we are
effectively setting the design the stone, at least if we don't
put a large »experimental« tag on them. However, this is not
what I'm talking about here.
Walter's current plan is to also keep the superseded bracket
syntax around, making use of it only a warning:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/a04cf864b932061ad7b72e7cad8b16fabc6a825a
This is a very, *very* questionable decision, as people won't
even know that the syntax is deprecated if compiling without
any flags, it adds a big maintenance burden (now the feature
must go through the usual deprecation cycle), and there is no
reason for keeping it around in the first place. No, backwards
compatibility to an unreleased state of Git master is not a
valid argument, especially if the feature suddenly appeared
without prior notice.
+1 !
