Phobos - breaking existing code

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Walter Bright"  wrote in message news:m5b0p2$1bv4$1 at digitalmars.com...

> Just for fun, I've decided to try and get MicroEmacs in D added to the dub 
> registry. The last time it compiled was 2 years ago.
>
> I wound up with at least a dozen references to Phobos names that have 
> disappeared. No corrective action was indicated, just "undefined symbol". 
> I have to go refigure out what the code was trying to do, and go poking 
> through the Phobos documentation to see what will work today.
>
> I know there's been a lot of "break my code" advocacy lately, but this 
> code was only 2 years old.
>
> I fully understand how unfriendly this is to users and how discouraging it 
> can be to have their recently working code shattered and scattered. We 
> need to do a lot better.

Two years is too old, you skipped all the deprecation stages.