Semantic versioning of packages and supported compiler versions

Tue May 10 21:18:02 UTC 2022

On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 14:35:06 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> It seems like the real problem here is that dub does not take 
> the installed toolchain version into account when resolving 
> dependencies. If a user runs `dub upgrade` with DMD 2.097 
> installed, dub should not select a package version that 
> requires 2.098.

That would be a nice feature to be able to list dmd as a 
versioned dependency, or any other tool that will be used during 
build.