On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 20:40:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:19:40PM +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-01-09 17:35, Marco Leise wrote:
>I Phobos should follow OpenGL in this regard and use a
>prefix like `etc` for useful but not finalized modules, so
>early adapters can try out new modules compare them with any
>existing API in Phobos where applicable (e.g. streams,
>json, ...) and report any issues. I have a feeling that right
>now most modules are tested by 2 people prior to the merge,
>because they spent a life in obscurity.
That has been suggested before and the counter argument is that
people will start using and complain when it's changed, even
if it's
in an experimental. Someone here said that the javax. packages
originally was experimental packages to they continued to live
in
the javax namespace to avoid breaking changes.
[...]
Maybe instead of calling it 'etc' we should outright call it
'experimental'. If you have code like:
import experimental.myawesomemodule;
...
I doubt you'd object very much when you have to rename it to:
import std.myawesomemodule;
...
since the word 'experimental' staring you in the face every
time you
open up the file will be a constant nagging reminder that you're
depending on something unstable, giving you motivation to want
to move
it to something stable as soon as you can.
T
I was of the opinion that phobos needed an experimental section
for getting real world testing of proposed modules but these days
I think we should just stick things up on dub (including modules
proposed for inclusion in phobos).
