This is why I don't use D.

[SrMordred]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 01:58:50 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 4, 2018 7:18:17 PM MDT James Blachly via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> This is part of why it's sometimes been discussed that we need 
> a way to indicate which dub packages are currently maintained 
> and work. A package updated last in February of 2016 may very 
> well still work today with the latest compiler, or it may fail 
> to compile as happens here. It depends on what the code is 
> doing, what has changed in D since the last update, and how 
> up-to-date the code really was when it was last updated (e.g. 
> if it was ignoring deprecation warnings rather than fixing 
> them, which I think was the case here).
>
> [...]

Wouldn´t be interesting to specify the compiler version on 
dub.json?
(I think ruby uses this idea)