How about a compatibility list?

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Christopher Wright wrote:

> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Saaa" <empty at needmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:gqjjp3$jrg$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> Who is going to do the work of reviewing these libraries for 
>>>> compatibility?
>>> The people :)
>>> like in the wine database.
>> 
>> I would think some of that work could be automated. Of course, setting up 
>> the automation could mean a fair bit of work...
> 
> You would need an acceptance testing framework. Otherwise you couldn't 
> tell whether the project does more than compile.
> 
> Granted, for D1 certainly, there have been only few changes that cause 
> semantic changes without syntactic changes. But in D2, that is not 
> necessarily the case.

I don't think that is needed to make such a list useful. Even if only some 
people vote for compatibility with compilers and could post comments, that 
would be useful to track down the state of affairs.