On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 07:13:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/23/2014 9:50 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> LDC 0.13.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
>> This is the first stable release based on the 2.064.2 frontend and standard
>> library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.4.2 (OS X: 3.2/3.4.x only).
>>
>> As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at
>> digitalmars.D.ldc:
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/yefpjkfouykvwkjiltxj@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>
> Congratulations!

Thanks. That was really hard work. I hope that we can create the next version a bit faster.

Regards,
Kai

On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 18:28:50 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 07:13:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/23/2014 9:50 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> LDC 0.13.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
>>> This is the first stable release based on the 2.064.2 frontend and standard
>>> library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.4.2 (OS X: 3.2/3.4.x only).
>>>
>>> As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at
>>> digitalmars.D.ldc:
>>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/yefpjkfouykvwkjiltxj@forum.dlang.org
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kai
>>
>> Congratulations!
>
> Thanks. That was really hard work. I hope that we can create the next version a bit faster.
>
> Regards,
> Kai

I hope this too. IMHO LDC is very important as a D2 compiler!
One question is will be next version use 2.065 or 2.066 frontend ?
Beta of DMD 2.066 is almost there.

Regards,
Remo

On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 18:33:12 UTC, Remo wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 18:28:50 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 07:13:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 6/23/2014 9:50 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> LDC 0.13.0, the LLVM-based D compiler, is available for download!
>>>> This is the first stable release based on the 2.064.2 frontend and standard
>>>> library and supports LLVM 3.1-3.4.2 (OS X: 3.2/3.4.x only).
>>>>
>>>> As usual, you can find links to the changelog and the binary packages over at
>>>> digitalmars.D.ldc:
>>>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/yefpjkfouykvwkjiltxj@forum.dlang.org
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Kai
>>>
>>> Congratulations!
>>
>> Thanks. That was really hard work. I hope that we can create the next version a bit faster.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kai
>
> I hope this too. IMHO LDC is very important as a D2 compiler!
> One question is will be next version use 2.065 or 2.066 frontend ?
> Beta of DMD 2.066 is almost there.
>
> Regards,
> Remo

It will be based on 2.065. There are only a few issues left in this version. 2.066 will add new issues in addition to the existing once. That is the reason why I will not skip a frontend version.

Regards,
Kai

On Wednesday, 25 June 2014 at 18:43:34 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> It will be based on 2.065. There are only a few issues left in this version. 2.066 will add new issues in addition to the existing once. That is the reason why I will not skip a frontend version.

I support your decision.

We have release building down to a science now, the most time-consuming thing is usually just waiting for the LLVM build to complete (apart from writing the release notes, of course – and having to wait for me to run the build process for the OS X packages on my notebook). The hard part is ironing out the one to two hard to debug issues that inevitable seem to crop up with every new frontend merge.

David