Phobos version naming

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Thu Nov 4 15:20:49 UTC 2021


On 11/4/21 8:04 AM, rikki cattermole wrote:
> 
> 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.

I don't think how to explain better that the mechanics of versioning are 
a different concern entirely than distribution.


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