Phobos version naming

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.com
Wed Nov 3 17:42:06 UTC 2021


On 2021-11-03 12:29, 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.

OK, so the way to go is with std version naming is...?


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