Phobos version naming

[Alexandru Ermicioi]

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 16:29:20 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 15:37:05 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Currently it's std.v2 but I'm unclear how it goes from there. 
>> By semver we'd go with std.v2_0_1 and so on.
>
> This seems like a misuse of semver to me. Backwards-compatible 
> bugfixes and additions to std.v2 can go directly into std.v2, 
> just like they currently do for std. There is no need to create 
> separate packages for every minor and patch increment.
>
> If we really want to support users depending on a specific 
> minor/patch release of Phobos other than the one shipped with 
> their D toolchain, we should put Phobos on code.dlang.org.

It could also be split into sub packages, this way it should be 
possible to pick up patched version of subpackage, if it is 
problematic to move entire phobos to newer version.

Best regards,
Alexandru.