D1, D2 and the future of libraries

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

My existing and developing libraries support only D2 :)


Masahiro

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:07:49 +0900, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> For the last however long, I've been still programming mostly in D1, but  
> aiming to keep my libraries compatible with both D1 and D2.
>
> But changes in D2 have made this more of a challenge.  I've also been  
> put off switching to D2 by the wait for D1 to be finished.
>
> Now the plan to discontinue D1 at the end of the year has been  
> announced.  And I'm wondering what to do with my libraries.
>
> How many people here are still using D1?
>
> What are those of you who write libraries mainly doing?
> (a) supporting only D1?
> (b) supporting only D2?
> (c) releasing separate D1 and D2 versions?
> (d) using versioning to support both with one set of code files?
>
>
> If practically everyone's using D2 now, maybe I'll migrate my libraries  
> to it.  If, OTOH, there's still real demand for D1 libraries, I'll  
> continue to support D1.  I might have to see how supporting D2 as well  
> works out.  It seems I'll have to abandon the idea of keeping the code  
> compatible with the D spec as of DMD 1.00.  It seems the reasons for  
> doing this never happened anyway, and there doesn't seem to be an  
> equivalent milestone in D2.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Stewart.