[dmd-internals] 3rd Biweekly Sprint Planning

[Walter Bright via dmd-internals]

On 8/11/2015 5:58 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2015, at 11:25, Walter Bright via dmd-internals wrote:
>> There's always going to be reasons not to switch to ddmd. We need to just do it.
>
> I do fully agree. For exactly this reason, I worked with Daniel to get DDMD 
> built by LDC up and running the day after DConf instead of immediately going 
> on my trip through Utah as originally planned. :)

That's great news!

>
>> I don't know what you mean by 314 causing regressions in every release?
>
> Every time somebody adds/removes imports in Phobos or makes them 
> function-local, it has a chance of causing breakage in client code because of 
> the various holes in the module system. I've witnessed this with two releases 
> in the Weka codebase now. With that observation, I was just trying to make the 
> point that we should not shy away from fixing those issues due to fear of 
> causing unforeseen regressions, because we are already doing so all the time.
>

Ok, I understand now.