On Monday, August 27, 2012 23:22:39 foobar wrote: > All true, except one crucial fact: DMD gets critical bug fixes > incorporated with new features in the same release. This leaves a > poor choice to the programmer, either he sticks with older > compiler version and can't get any critical bug fixes, or he > updates the compiler to latest version with all the bug fixes but > risks breakage of code due to new features (which is _exactly_ > what happened to manu).
Except that the change which is causing Manu problems _isn't_ a new feature. It's a bug fix. So, better versioning wouldn't necessarily have helped him any at all. At best, if we had a more complex versioning scheme, it could be decided that the bug fix was potentially disruptive enough that it should only be fixed in a more major release, but _every_ bug fix risks breaking code, especially when code could be relying on the buggy behavior. - Jonathan M Davis
