Porting 1.x libraries to 2.x

[Derek Parnell]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:30:53 -0400, John C wrote:

> What strategies do library authors have for maintaining two
> versions of a their code - one for D 1.0 and another for 2.0?
> When they make changes to one version, do they manually copy
> them into the other branch? Or is there a way of automating
> the process?
> 
> Version blocks don't seem to help much.
> 
> I'm finding it very tedious and somewhat haphazard going the
> manual route - it's easy to forget, and sometimes I get so
> carried away adding new code to my 1.0 library that it's a 
> struggle to recall every line I've changed.
> 
> Ideally, I'd just update the 1.0 branch and run a script to
> make the necessary changes for it to compile with DMD 2.0. Do
> Unix/Linix people use the patch command for this (and is there
> a Windows equivalent)?

You're correct in that version{} is no help at all. I use a text macro
program to help me.

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Derek Parnell
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