August 20, 2014
On 20 August 2014 02:41, Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/14, 1:26 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> On 8/18/14, 5:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/18/2014 7:14 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I also propose to start 2.067 beta branch right now and declare it yet another bug-fixing release.
>>>
>>>
>>> Seconded.
>>
>>
>> Well that's what happened - someone started 2.067. What's the advantage of doing this? Now we need to worry about master and 2.067 instead of just master. -- Andrei
>>
>
> That was my doing... I am preparing myself for the next go around. The
> actual branch will be created on Sunday (24 Aug) for a Monday (0900 PDT)
> announcement. The beta cycle will run eight weeks following that. On the
> fourth week (22 Sept) I will transition from beta to RC.
>

Hurrah!

Iain
August 20, 2014
thank you general for your selfish and user considered release.
the lieutenants probably feel kind of really taken care of - as well as D users.
how do you test and release at facebook.
i am a user that considers to leave after many years. i am starting to dislike the language, as it is getting blown up and the the syntax getting ever weirder, less mainstream and a support for windows that really sucks.

good luck in the future for all you guys



On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 22:27:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 8/19/14, 3:09 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 21:13:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Walter, now that release is out can you please state your opinion about
>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3651 ? It is blocking
>>>> Phobos module split and decoupling.
>>>
>>> LGTM. Any opposition to merging? -- Andrei
>>
>> Walter seems to be the only one :)
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/lt00a9$2uoe$1@digitalmars.com
>
> I think it would be great to motivate the change properly. -- Andrei

August 20, 2014
On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 23:07:27 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> i myself using dmd-git-head and heavily ;-) patched gdc, but when i
> tried to convince my co-workers to use D, they looked at the page with
> releases first. not feature list or some comparisons. neither to
> "buglist". "as this is relatively young language, it must have frequent
> releases with bugfixes and new features!" they tolerate some
> regressions in some releases, but they want to see that releases.
>
> don't ask me why they thinking like this. i don't know. but it's the
> fact.

Can't it be addressed by publishing release schedule, like llvm does it, to indicate the work is going on?
August 20, 2014
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:19:37 +0000
Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> Can't it be addressed by publishing release schedule, like llvm does it, to indicate the work is going on?
hm. sounds reasonable. ;-)


August 20, 2014
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:15:53 +0000
disapointed user via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> support for windows that really sucks.
that is 'cause windows really sucks.

> good luck in the future for all you guys
you too.


August 20, 2014
too bad that i wasted my time for such a long time. i post a link to that thread with your answer to everywhere i can, so that others won't waste their time too.

anyway good luck in the future for you linux guys.



On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 09:37:24 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:15:53 +0000
> disapointed user via Digitalmars-d-announce
> <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> support for windows that really sucks.
> that is 'cause windows really sucks.
>
>> good luck in the future for all you guys
> you too.

August 20, 2014
On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 09:15:54 UTC, disapointed user wrote:
> thank you general for your selfish and user considered release.
> the lieutenants probably feel kind of really taken care of - as well as D users.
> how do you test and release at facebook.
> i am a user that considers to leave after many years. i am starting to dislike the language, as it is getting blown up and the the syntax getting ever weirder, less mainstream and a support for windows that really sucks.
>
> good luck in the future for all you guys
>

Anything specific you have problems with? Syntax changes aren't all that common these days (*dodges rock thrown by Brian Schott*) and Windows support is pretty solid. What I consider to be the last remaining large piece, 32-bit COFF support, was just merged.
August 20, 2014
On 8/19/14, 4:38 PM, safety0ff wrote:
> I find it hard to believe that it is just a coincidence that a surprise
> release occurred on the same day as Java 9 and C++14 announcements.

For my part I had no idea, and the exact announcement time was solely up to me. -- Andrei

August 20, 2014
On 8/19/14, 5:14 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> Actually you can believe it. I am the one that called for the release
> and it pay ZERO attention to those two languages with the mild exception
> that when I have time I crack open a Java book to try to learn a little
> programming.

Yah, to amend my previous post: the release time was chosen by Andrew and the announcement time was chosen by me. Apparently neither of us knew about the other language announcements :o). -- Andrei

August 20, 2014
On 8/19/14, 7:28 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 11:12:25 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>> [...]
>> In essence, it was always this big, just you never saw it because it
>> got downloaded during the installation process.
>
> It was also significantly bigger before because the download it
> did was the >30MB dmd zip that contained files for all platform,
> not just Windows. The installer is LZMA compressed too so it's
> even smaller than the dmd windows-only zip (16MB).
>
> Because of this, download size is now 1/3rd what it was and
> installation size dropped from 176 MB to just 71 MB.

Glad to finally see that one taken care of! -- Andrei