Why std_data_json is not default in phobos

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, February 22, 2018 09:35:06 Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 09:20:15 UTC, aberba wrote:
> > I've taken a close look at the Api and its looks good. Its been
> > around for a while. Why is it not yet in phobos?
> >
> > https://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json
>
> A good reason is that a dmd regression broke it:
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18267
>
> I haven't been able to update from dmd 2.077.1 at work because of
> this.

Well, while that's definitely a problem, it really has nothing to do with
why it's not in Phobos (no attempt to get it into Phobos has occurred since
well before 2.077.1 was released), and if it _were_ in Phobos, then the
regression would have been caught by the autotester, and the code that
caused it would never have been merged - which is one advantage to having
something be in Phobos rather than on code.dlang.org.

- Jonathan M Davis