Backporting

[Bill Baxter]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
> lurk wrote:
>> Frits van Bommel Wrote:
>>
>>> lurk wrote:
>>>> and the worst is, that the libraries such as tango etc. offer version 2.0
>>> ??
>>> AFAIK Tango only supports 1.x ...
>> meant to be sarcastic.
>> 2.x is need, but nobody supports it.
>>
> 
> "Hey guys, let's update Tango to support 2.0; it'll take a while, but
> it'll be worth it!"
> 
> "Yeah!"
> 
> [A few months later]
> 
> "Ok, we're finally done!  We had to refactor a sh*tload of code, and
> split a heap of it off into different modules and *damn* do I hate
> string mixins now, but we're finally done!"
> 
> Walter: "const sucks; let's re-design it from scratch."
> 
> "Dear God, shoot me now!"
> 
> *That's* why libraries don't support D 2.0.  Because it would be silly
> to support a target that's not only moving, but constantly changing
> shape. :)
> 
> 	-- Daniel

Which is exactly why cherry picking some backward-compatible features 
from 2.0 to backport makes a lot of sense.  Is that the point you were 
trying to make?

--bb