Migrating D front end to D - post Dconf

[Daniel Murphy]

"David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> wrote in message 
news:mwkwqttkbdpmzvyviymq at forum.dlang.org...
> On Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 17:10:51 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> If you decide that all later versions of the compiler must compile with 
>> all
>> earlier versions of phobos, then those phobos modules are unable to 
>> change.
>
> In (the rare) case of breaking changes, we could always work around them 
> in the compiler source (depending on __VERSION__), rather than duplicating 
> everything up-front.
>
> I believe *this* is the nice middle ground.
>
> David

That... doesn't sound very nice to me.  How much of phobos are we 
realistically going to need?