Migrating D front end to D - post Dconf

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 16:15:13 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 16:08:02 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 15:51:26 UTC, David Nadlinger 
>> wrote:
>>> If we keep a "must compile with several past versions" policy 
>>> anyway, what would make Phobos special?
>>>
>>> David
>>
>> It prevent the use of newer feature of D in phobos.
>
> ?!
>
> It prevents the use of newer Phobos features in the compiler, 
> but we would obviously use the Phobos version that comes with 
> the host D compiler to compile the frontend, not the version 
> shipping with the frontend.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I really can't see the 
> issue here.
>
> David

No, that is what have been said : you got to fork phobos and ship 
your own with the compiler.