Help!

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

> It is unbelievably frustrating for people to have their code 
> break with each new release, have older projects all 
> invalidated, with few willing to do the maintenance work to 
> bring them back on line.

I am still converting some of my D1 code to D2, plus I have lot 
of D2 code. Since many months I have stopped downloading official 
dmd releases because the amount of breakages in my D2 code 
between a version and the successive one was too much large. DMD 
2.061 has so many changes and improvements that it will require 
several changes in everyone D2 code.

To avoid performing such large amount of changes I now compile 
dmd every two or three days, and I have scripts that compile all 
my D2 programs and report the breakages. This way I fix a small 
amount of breakages at a time in my D2 code, this is simpler.

Most of those breakages are caused by bug fixings that reveal 
bugs in my D2 code (example: since recently throwing constructors 
accepted a nothrow tag, and I have many more examples). But I am 
willing to perform this maintenance work because they improve my 
future D2 programming and code.

If we add to those bug-fixing-changes some breakage caused by 
design changes, this is not going to make my live significantly 
worse, it's just one more breakage among several others.

Bye,
bearophile