std.json API broken without notice

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/9/14, 5:35 AM, David wrote:
> Am 09.03.2014 04:58, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> std.json broke backward compatibility, starting with
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/1958c95666b0241d669d282806e4f724fbb37caf.
>> There's even no notice in the changelog of the breakage, which is quite
>> obvious by inspecting the diff.
>>
>> This is a serious matter because it broke production code. Was there a
>> reason for the breakage? We should make sure breaking changes are
>> avoided or get a lot of scrutiny if they are really necessary.
>>
>> I wonder how we can improve the process to avoid such issues in the future.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> What code did break?
> I did use std.json heavily myself before this pull request and it was
> basically unusable (hence the pull to improve the api), so I tried to
> expand std.json without breaking backwards compatability, the tests ran
> through also my code still worked.

As is plain from the diff, the publicly available storage now needs 
".store" in there. Making untagged store public was probably a mistake 
in the initial design, but breakage is what it is.

Andrei