Re: D's timeline

2014-05-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 20/05/14 20:56, Nick Sabalausky wrote:


There weren't really any alpha/beta/rc states for any of that. Neither
formally nor informally. Back then, everything was all just if it's
good enough for you, then go ahead and use it. The stability was more
of an ever-progressing (and occasionally regressing) gradient.

Also, 0.x - 1.x was only an arbitrary line in the sand. Version 1.000
was just simply the name of the next regular release after 0.1xx
(whatever the xx would have been, don't recall offhand). The 1.000
moniker was more PR than technical.

Similarly, version 2.000 was just simply the next mainline release
after it was decided to fork off a separate no more breaking changes
branch (which is what 1.x *became* when 2.000 was released).

It was all definitely very much *not* semantic versioning.


Yeah, and it still continues with the same model. Although, we have had 
a few alphas and betas of individual releases.


--
/Jacob Carlborg


D's timeline

2014-05-20 Thread Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm working on my presentation for the conference and I'm running out of time.  I'd like to ask you 
guys for some help locating a few dates:


1) When 0.x transitioned from alpha to beta
2) Was there a beta to release candidate transition for 0.x - 1.x? If so, when?  I have the 1.00 
release date, that one is easy.

3) When did the 2.x series switch similarly (alpha, beta, rc)?
4) When were the various platforms added to the release bundles?


Any other events you consider major in the history of D.  I've already got a bunch, but have room to 
include more and would hate to miss anything big.  We each have our own view on what's important and 
I won't promise to include ones mentioned, but I'd love to have more to consider including.


Please send them directly to me (bra...@puremagic.com) rather than follow up in the news group to 
avoid a long and not really appropriate for the announce group discussion.


Thanks,
Brad


Re: D's timeline

2014-05-20 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 20/05/14 10:19, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

I'm working on my presentation for the conference and I'm running out of
time.  I'd like to ask you guys for some help locating a few dates:

1) When 0.x transitioned from alpha to beta
2) Was there a beta to release candidate transition for 0.x - 1.x? If
so, when?  I have the 1.00 release date, that one is easy.
3) When did the 2.x series switch similarly (alpha, beta, rc)?
4) When were the various platforms added to the release bundles?


Here is what I found out from the changelog:

* Linux 0.63 [1]
* OS X 32bit 1.040 [2], 2.025 [8]
* FreeBSD 2.053 [3], 1.043 [4]
* OS X 64bit 2.053 [3], 1.072 [5]
* Linux 64bit 2.052 [6], 1.067 [7]

[1] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog1.html#new063
[2] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html#new1_040
[3] http://dlang.org/changelog.html#new2_053
[4] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html#new1_043
[5] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html#new1_072
[6] http://dlang.org/changelog.html#new2_052
[7] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html#new1_067
[8] http://dlang.org/changelog.html#new2_025

--
/Jacob Carlborg


Re: D's timeline

2014-05-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 5/20/2014 4:19 AM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

I'm working on my presentation for the conference and I'm running out of
time.  I'd like to ask you guys for some help locating a few dates:

1) When 0.x transitioned from alpha to beta
2) Was there a beta to release candidate transition for 0.x - 1.x? If
so, when?  I have the 1.00 release date, that one is easy.
3) When did the 2.x series switch similarly (alpha, beta, rc)?


There weren't really any alpha/beta/rc states for any of that. Neither 
formally nor informally. Back then, everything was all just if it's 
good enough for you, then go ahead and use it. The stability was more 
of an ever-progressing (and occasionally regressing) gradient.


Also, 0.x - 1.x was only an arbitrary line in the sand. Version 1.000 
was just simply the name of the next regular release after 0.1xx 
(whatever the xx would have been, don't recall offhand). The 1.000 
moniker was more PR than technical.


Similarly, version 2.000 was just simply the next mainline release 
after it was decided to fork off a separate no more breaking changes 
branch (which is what 1.x *became* when 2.000 was released).


It was all definitely very much *not* semantic versioning.