A better way of managing backwards compatibility?

[Prudence via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 21:03:05 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 17:48:23 UTC, Prudence wrote:
>> 2. Write a translation process that essentially "updates" the 
>> source code to work.
>
> Lucky you: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix

There you go!! It seems someone just as intelligent as me 
realizes the power of such a thing!!

The only real problem is integrating it with the compiler to make 
it seamless. I know there are detractors who think it is too much 
work, but these people like to waste time, They think they have 
it to waste!

But even spending 1 hr on trying to compile source code with 
versioning issues is a terrible of time that could be better used 
on more productive things. DFix is obviously a step in the right 
direction... but a few more steps are required to save the many 
thousands of man hours that are wasted on versioning control.