Phobos version naming

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Thu Nov 4 12:04:53 UTC 2021


On 04/11/2021 4:50 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
> Given that code.dlang.org already has infrastructure in place for 
> distributing many releases of the same package, I think it makes sense 
> to use it for at least some of Phobos's distribution, if not all of it. 
> And my gut reaction is that shipping *every* release in the official D 
> distribution would be too much--at the very least, new users should not 
> be presented with dozens of standard-library releases to choose from 
> right off the bat. So, the right answer is probably somewhere between 
> those two extremes.

Yeah I am well past the point of laughing about all of this versioning 
stuff.

Give us a dub package for anything that hasn't matured.

Once matured, it goes into Phobos.

Too much energy is being wasted on what should be a pretty streamlined 
process.


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