Breaking backwards compatiblity

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Fri Mar 9 14:41:21 PST 2012


On 03/09/2012 11:32 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> This statement is from Linus Torvalds about breaking binary compatibility:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/8/495
>
> While I don't think we need to worry so much at the moment about
> breaking binary compatibility with new D releases, we do have a big
> problem with breaking source code compatibility.
>
> This is why we need to have a VERY high bar for breaking changes.

Most bug fixes are breaking changes. I don't think we are there yet.


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