Phobos - breaking existing code

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/29/2014 7:56 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 11/29/14, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You seem to create this kind of thread every other month. People
> complaint to you about A and B, you ignore it, and then when it hits
> you *personally* suddenly it's a shock to you.
>
> The fact that you think you're going to get symbol suggestions for 2
> year old code just shows how out of touch you are with the development
> process. We have a deprecation stage, and a removal stage. There's no
> way you're going to get suggestions for missing symbols for code that
> references those symbols which existed 2 years ago.

Since I participate in that process, I am hardly unaware of it :-)