why to (not) support "older" compiler versions

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 3 November 2015 at 11:35, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Whilst other clean-up work has destroyed years of stable compatibility
between different 'ends'.  ;-)
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