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digitalmars.D.ldc - Drop D1 support now?

reply "David Nadlinger" <see klickverbot.at> writes:
Hi all,

my original plans back in December were to make the next 
(upcoming) release the last one to support D1, so that there is a 
LDC 1 version available that is based on the last official 
frontend release.

However, the new D1 frontend still has not been merged, while at 
the same time we should really push for a quick 2.062 merge and 
subsequent release. As it looks like the general interest in D1 
has pretty much faded by now - there has not been a single 
D1-related question or issue report since the last release -, 
what do you think about dropping D1 support from Git master very 
soon?

The last version to still have a dmd/ in working order would get 
branched off, so that anybody could continue to work on it if D1 
is still of interest to them.

David
Feb 18 2013
next sibling parent reply "Kai Nacke" <kai redstar.de> writes:
On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 19:18:48 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:

 Hi all,

 my original plans back in December were to make the next 
 (upcoming) release the last one to support D1, so that there is 
 a LDC 1 version available that is based on the last official 
 frontend release.

 However, the new D1 frontend still has not been merged, while 
 at the same time we should really push for a quick 2.062 merge 
 and subsequent release. As it looks like the general interest 
 in D1 has pretty much faded by now - there has not been a 
 single D1-related question or issue report since the last 
 release -, what do you think about dropping D1 support from Git 
 master very soon?


Hi David!

If there is no general interest in D1 then we should drop the 
support.

For all changes I did I relied on travis to check for D1. And 

checks for syntax. I assume that we have to invest a lot of work 
to get a real quality D1 release. But without a general interest 
we should put the effort into D2.

Regards
Kai
Feb 18 2013
parent "David Nadlinger" <see klickverbot.at> writes:
On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 21:18:00 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:

 For all changes I did I relied on travis to check for D1.


Same here.



 checks for syntax. I assume that we have to invest a lot of 
 work to get a real quality D1 release. But without a general 
 interest we should put the effort into D2.


Yep, this sums up my position pretty nicely as well.

David
Feb 18 2013
prev sibling parent "Adam Wilson" <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:18:47 -0800, David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at>  
wrote:


 Hi all,

 my original plans back in December were to make the next (upcoming)  
 release the last one to support D1, so that there is a LDC 1 version  
 available that is based on the last official frontend release.

 However, the new D1 frontend still has not been merged, while at the  
 same time we should really push for a quick 2.062 merge and subsequent  
 release. As it looks like the general interest in D1 has pretty much  
 faded by now - there has not been a single D1-related question or issue  
 report since the last release -, what do you think about dropping D1  
 support from Git master very soon?

 The last version to still have a dmd/ in working order would get  
 branched off, so that anybody could continue to work on it if D1 is  
 still of interest to them.

 David


Given that D1 is no longer officially supported I would fully support of  
dropping D1 from LDC. Branch it off for those who want to continue to work  
on it. And it would free you up to work on D2 support.

-- 
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
Feb 23 2013