Hi all, Okay, so my original plans of making a release in September turned out to be nothing but a pipe dream; I underestimated the amount of issues that would turn up, while at the same time being swamped by university work much sooner than expected.
In any case, I think it is important for us to get out a release as soon as possible, to have a solid base for working on ease of access to LDC, including updated packages in Debian and other distributions that generally don't ship unreleased versions. Now, my question: In your opinion, which of the remaining bugs should we definitely fix before working on finalizing the release? I have my own list, but let my instead note two things which I don't think will make it into this release: - Fixes for the x86_64 ABI issues – I have started work on it, but there is still quite a lot to do, and the current code _mostly_ works. - My rewritten variadic argument code – I would have loved to see this in the release, but I recently discovered some new issues (e.g. Github #172), and I'm afraid it will take quite a bit more work to get the ode in shape. On a related note, my plan for the future is to track DMD upstream releases as close as possible with our own releases, so that never have to wait too long to get their hands on new frontend versions without having to manually build from source (of course, this would be easier if DMD had a somewhat predictable release schedule). What do you think? David --
