Transitioning std lib modules/packages

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/28/2016 08:42 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> On Monday, 28 November 2016 at 13:34:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 11/28/2016 04:13 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
>>> Hoping std.v2.stdio works and it's an alias to std.stdio.
>>
>> That doesn't work - how do you later make breaking changes to
>> std.v2.stdio? We'd be missing the very point of doing this. -- Andrei
>
> It's just an api level. When you need a breaking change all modules will
> be updated to v3 as alias except the edited ones.
>
> V3 it just like a commit-id on github.

I see - although that's an awesome idea for github, it seems excessive 
to bump the version of the entire stdlib when we want to transition one 
module or package of it. -- Andrei