Different versions of same library with Deimos

[Moritz Maxeiner]

On Monday, 25 March 2013 at 12:50:49 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> how is Deimos supposed to address different versions of a 
> library?
> In the case at hand, I have a Deimos repository for LLVM 3.1. 
> Now I want
> to add support for version 3.2. Should I create a different 
> branch or
> just a tag?
>
> BTW I updated my documentation for creating Deimos repositories.
> http://jkm.github.com/d-programming-language.org/deimos.html
>
> Jens

We talked about that previously, but I'll say it here again for 
reference: You could use version identifiers and CTFE (the way I 
did with llvm-d). That way someone just has to download the 
deimos project and doesn't have to worry about getting the right 
branch every time he is on a different system. It also reduces 
the amount of redundant code as most of the code across different 
versions of the same library (for the C API anyway) will be the 
same and if you find a bug you don't have to look at all the 
other branches to see if it also needs to be fixed there.

Reading the rest of the posts here it doesn't seem like anyone 
favours it particularily, though, which is a pity.

Moritz