D1 -> D2

[spir]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:07:38 +0900
Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/18/2010 7:51 PM, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
> > Is there any "porting" guide around in a wiki?
> > If not a page where to share the best tricks would be nice "D1->D2
> > conversion tricks"?
> >
> > In the short term I don't think that going D2 only is really an option
> > for me, so how feasible it is to keep the code base compatible to both
> > D1 and D2?
> >
> > I know that one can define some templates (for example Const(T),....),
> > and maybe use mixins, but how much uglier does the code become as result?
> > I choose D to have cleaner code, I am not interested in loosing all that
> > just to be D1 and D2, then I prefer to wait, and convert everything at
> > once.
> >
> > Well that is about it...
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Fawzi
> 
> In maintaining Derelict, which is nothing more than a simple collection 
> of bindings to C libraries, I have had headaches keeping compatibility 
> between D1/D2. It's nothing that has been difficult to solve, just ugly.
> 
> If something as simple as a C-binding is uglified, I cringe at the 
> thought of maintaining something more complex. It's going to get very 
> ugly, very quickly. My attitude is that any future D projects I make 
> available will be D2 only. I just don't think it's worth being 
> compatible with both versions from a code maintenance perspective.

I have read your blog post on the topic. This let me think that all true needs for string mixins, like yours, are cases revealing plain language issues.


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