D versionning

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Jul 15 23:07:16 PDT 2012


On 7/15/2012 4:53 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On 16/07/2012 01:07, Walter Bright wrote:
>> It needs to stop completely.
>>
>
> No. It hasn't been made for no reasons.
>
> But yes, some code is broken in the process. This is exactly why we need a more
> sophisticated versionning process (note the recurring pattern in my posts :D ).
>
> The fact that some people have legacy code shouldn't stop D progress. But with
> the current system, D must either break code or make no progress.

Changing names is minute progress, and is too costly in terms of annoying 
existing users and breaking their code.


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