new DIP41: dmd/rdmd command line overhaul.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/22/13 4:25 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> Except D is nowhere close to stable, it only pretends to. Every single
> release breaks the code. Every. Usual attitude "well, it is a breaking
> change and a lot of users will be screwed, but it is a bug fix, so we
> are all right?". No, you are not. I can't imagine where such definition
> of "breaking" came from, it is literally single most disastrous thing in
> D development process.

At a level it should be obvious that not all breakages are equal. It's 
better to suffer from few and well-motivated breakages that actually fix 
real problems and improve user code, than from arbitrary breakages 
caused by name churn. To just put them under the same umbrella "this 
release broke my build" would miss important details.

> And I have proposed various ways to address it properly via release
> process numerous times. Every single topic was ignored both by Andrei
> and Walter. Because, yeah, it isn't real problem, is it?

Of course it is a problem. There have been numerous discussions on the 
topic indeed, and we are evidently trying to improve things.

I only count one discussion initiated by you ("Release process and 
backwards compatibility" started on March 8, 2013 at 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/nchvayzsbrzevvucmmmi@forum.dlang.org. That 
discussion has had some 15 responses from 7 people, none of whom seemed 
to quite rally behind your point. I am sorry you feel that particular 
idea has not received the attention you believe it deserves, but it 
would be much to accuse me or Walter of deliberately ignoring it.


Andrei