Why Phobos is cool

[Petar]

On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 15:14:21 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 14:27:02 UTC, Petar Kirov 
> [ZombineDev] wrote:
>> Technically, phobos is actually already on Dub 
>> (https://code.dlang.org/packages/phobos), so in the future 
>> nothing could prevent you to continue using it, but you would 
>> just get it from there and not from the compiler distribution 
>> archive. It's the same code, made by the same people, just 
>> with a different distribution model.
>
> Aside: it seems like Dub is not properly picking up the tagged 
> releases, and only has '~master' and '~stable' available. 
> Fixing this would make using Phobos via dub a much more 
> attractive proposition.

I agree, this would at least allow people pick an exact version. 
(Of course, given that Phobos doesn't follow SemVer, every minor 
release (2.xx.0) could introduce a breaking change - a symbol 
being removed after the 2 year deprecation period.)

But still, the next major problem to solve is actually ensuring 
that each Phobos release works with several different compiler 
releases, which as far as I can see is not going to happen 
anytime soon.