January 13, 2020
On 1/10/2020 2:48 PM, Manu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 6:35 PM Walter Bright via
> Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/7/2020 6:31 PM, Manu wrote:
>>> It will still do that, either now... or later. So, why wait?
>>
>> Because customers have their own schedules.
> 
> Customers update their compilers according to their schedules, and
> they can use `-revert` if they're not ready to migrate, that's the
> whole point...
> You didn't answer me though, if it's accepted, and it's implemented...
> why not enable it? and when will we do it?
> Explain the reason for the delay or choice in timing? The transition
> you describe must happen at some time... and delay changes nothing;
> the transition is exactly the same.

We decided a couple years ago to implement disruptive new features first with -preview=feature, and some time later make it the default and have a -revert=feature.

So far, it has worked well. I don't see any reason to change it.

January 13, 2020
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 1:40 AM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/10/2020 2:48 PM, Manu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 6:35 PM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 1/7/2020 6:31 PM, Manu wrote:
> >>> It will still do that, either now... or later. So, why wait?
> >>
> >> Because customers have their own schedules.
> >
> > Customers update their compilers according to their schedules, and
> > they can use `-revert` if they're not ready to migrate, that's the
> > whole point...
> > You didn't answer me though, if it's accepted, and it's implemented...
> > why not enable it? and when will we do it?
> > Explain the reason for the delay or choice in timing? The transition
> > you describe must happen at some time... and delay changes nothing;
> > the transition is exactly the same.
>
> We decided a couple years ago to implement disruptive new features first with -preview=feature, and some time later make it the default and have a -revert=feature.
>
> So far, it has worked well. I don't see any reason to change it.

Yes, but we've had the -preview for close to a year now... I'm asking
what "some time later" means?
Obviously the lib needs to be fixed (that Rainer pointed out).
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