DLF September 2023 Planning Update

[Mike Parker]

On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:38:38 UTC, Adam D Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 at 02:27:42 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:
>> I just want to echo Steve's sentiment, that it should be easy 
>> for new (and old) D users to start up a project without 
>> worrying about editions.
>
> Actually, this brings another question to mind: what about old 
> users who keep up with the language? Do they need to edit 
> dozens or hundreds of files on each and every language update? 
> (Of course, making a script do this for you wouldn't be 
> especially difficult, but I don't trust scripts to edit my code 
> soooooo lol and besides, what about things like ddoc examples, 
> will it edit them too?)
>

The goal is that you will never have to touch those dozens or 
hundreds of files when you update to a new version of the 
compiler. That old code will benefit from any bug fixes in the 
newest compiler versions, but will always compile.

If and when you're ready to make use of a new feature from a 
newer edition, e.g., tuples from Edition N, then you take three 
steps:

1. fork your project
2. run the fix tool on however many modules/packages you 
want/need to
3. manually touch up whatever the fix tool couldn't handle 
automatically

That should cover any modifications required for changed/removed 
features, and now you can use tuples in those updated modules.

That's the idea, anyway, as I currently understand it.