D's Continous Changing

[Paul Backus]

On Friday, 5 March 2021 at 03:32:35 UTC, harakim wrote:
> That was pretty sweet. However, it kind of goes to the point of 
> my post. A one-revision difference means the documentation is 
> not accurate for my compiler.
>
> I'm not saying the language shouldn't evolve, I'm just saying 
> it might make sense to keep compatibility changes to every 6 
> months or a year. Then you could keep the old documentation 
> around for the old version, and create new documentation for 
> the new version and no matter which version someone is using 
> they would have documentation (within limits.)

The website is *supposed* to keep documentation for old versions 
around, and allow you to select them using the drop-down menu at 
the top-right:

https://i.imgur.com/ICu9Z7a.png

However, it looks like this feature is currently broken, since 
the archived documentation stops at version 2.081. I've filed an 
issue in the appropriate repository [1], so hopefully that will 
be fixed soon.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/docarchives.dlang.io/issues/1