Breaking backwards compatiblity
Alex Rønne Petersen
xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 14:46:24 PST 2012
On 09-03-2012 23:32, 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.
If we want to start being able to avoid breaking changes, we *really*
need to finally deprecate the stuff that's been slated for deprecation
for ages...
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- Alex
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