why to (not) support "older" compiler versions

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/11/2015 7:52 PM, drug wrote:
> On 03.11.2015 11:22, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>>
>> I guess it's to be compatible with the latest DMD, LDC and GDC. GDC
>> currently only provides the 2.066.1 frontend.
>>
> A bit offtopic - will the situation change with ddmd accepted? I mean
> the situation with different frontend version in different compilers.

While DDMD does not have any direct effect on our ability to keep the 
three compilers synced, some of the cleanup work that has been done does 
help.