On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

On 01/25/2016 04:17 AM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

Looking at the way we have things now, it would actually be quite simple
to make two downloads, one with everything and one with the bare minimum.

If we changed phobos to compile like the recent vibe.d version does then
we can even pick and choose sections of phobos. I suppose "he who has
the vision" can do either type of release with our current tools.

What would be the benefits of this? My knee-jerk reaction is this is a large and disruptive project with no palpable benefits. -- Andrei

Yep, thats kind of what I was saying in the end. If someone wanted to they could make such a release independently.

I'm trying to hack on the compiler, personally I wish all those with the know how would put their efforts into documenting how the compiler works and what the different parts do, that way we could have more contributors.