standardization of D

[torhu]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
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>> Bruno Medeiros Wrote:
>>> Indeed. Aside publicity/marketing, does D 1.0 even matter at all? By 
>>> "matter", I mean, who of the D developers (even if just hobbying around) 
>>> use, work with, or generally care about D 1.0 instead of the current D? 
>>> Likely few or none, especially with the amazing new features added, and 
>>> even more are planned to come.
>>>
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> Yes, I know what the switch allows, but I'm wondering who is actually 
> using it.
> 

I have a dwt app that uses it, and the dallegro project uses it too. 
It's mostly a C binding.  I guess one problem is that it makes it more 
complicated for users of dallegro to use backwards compatibility 
breaking features.  They would have to compile the dallegro files 
separately from files that use post-1.0-only features.  So I guess a 
'D_1_0' version ID would be useful.  Or some other system that allows 
libraries to adjust to being built both with and without -v1.  Then the 
compatibility issue could be handled in a way that's transparent to the 
user.

I haven't looked into both DMD and GDC's versions of std.compiler, so I 
don't know how far that would take you.  And then there's Tango.  But 
this should really be part of the compiler, not of the library.