How about a compatibility list?

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 13:40:27 PDT 2009


Lutger wrote:
> 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.

But then it isn't automated. This branch of the discussion is 
particularly about automating the process. For that, you do in fact need 
to test the code somehow besides just compiling it.



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