Is this actually a bug or?

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 20:20:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 20:06:12 bauss via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> If you look at: 
>> https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond/blob/master/authentication/permissio ns.d#L13
>>
>> I have to import "diamond.http.method" manually, although the 
>> package "diamond.http" imports the module public like:
>>
>> https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond/blob/master/http/package.d#L11
>>
>> However if the import statement directly to the module is 
>> removed then it won't compile, because the symbols from 
>> diamond.http.method are undefined symbols.
>>
>> It only happens in that module too, other modules can access 
>> the symbols fine with importing "diamond.http" only.
>>
>> For the compiler I'm using dmd-2.072.2, so if it's a bug and 
>> it has been fixed in a newer version it'd be nice to know.
>>
>> I'm not asking for a work-around as clearly importing the 
>> module directly works fine, but I would just like to know if 
>> it's a bug and if I should report it or if it has already been 
>> fixed/is a known issue.
>
> Well, at first glance, it seems like you should just be able to 
> import the package, but I suppose that there could be some 
> detail I'm missing. I don't recall any bugs about that, but 
> that doesn't mean that there weren't any. 2.072.2 is pretty old 
> at this point, and I would advise against using it, but 
> regardless, the easiest way to know if your problem goes away 
> with a newer compiler is to just use a newer compiler.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Yeah I would use a newer compiler, but unfortunately mysql-native 
doesn't link properly with any versions after or at least it 
didn't for my project. (When compiling to x86)

I haven't tried for a few releases though, so I might give it a 
try again.

The linking issue is similar to this: 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15183