D forbearance(Official backing of libs)

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On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 21:10:53 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 15:18:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> How do you mean that? It can, and it does. It has often 
>> happened that bugs have been quickly fixed. -- Andrei
>
> Maybe quickly fixed in git, but usually not in the user's 
> system since the average user waits for the next release to 
> update Phobos.. which sometimes breaks their build.
>
> My libs are just independent files they can download at any 
> time with little risk.
>
> To test a new version of simpledisplay.d for example:
>
> mv simpledisplay.d simpledisplay.d.old
> wget 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adamdruppe/arsd/master/simpledisplay.d
> make
>
>
> And see what happens. No need to mess with git dmd or anything 
> like you do to use a prerelease Phobos version.

That is exactly the reason why I have been concerned about 
creation of std.experimental :(