Sharding Phobos an alternative to sharding druntime

[Alexandru Ermicioi]

On Friday, 21 June 2024 at 16:39:43 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
>
> I proposed this many many months ago, right back at the start 
> of PhobosV3 work that we "shard" Phobos, of course back then I 
> didn't call it as such.

Those shards might also be published on dub. This could in 
principle allow patches and improvements to shards without 
waiting for D release.

Each shard could have it's own versioning, and releases, so 
people needing a change won't need to wait much.

There might also be a meta package that imports other shards, and 
is locked with D release versions. This meta package would sort 
of work like bom projects in maven, i.e. it's dependencies would 
specify versions of shards that are guaranteed to work with 
specific D version.

Ofc, a reference phobos version should be shipped with D 
installation. The build system for D installers could then just 
pull a version of phobos meta package and include it as part of D 
installers.

Note: it would be nice if in dub you could specify the language 
version the library was written in. This defined on shards would 
also allow easier phobos meta package build.