Phobos version naming

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2021-11-04 8:04, 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've said this a few times and I'll say it again in the hope it catches on:

The process of distributing versions of software and the process of 
coding and maintaining versions of software are distinct.