Am 09.03.2014 04:58, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: > std.json broke backward compatibility, starting with > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/commit/1958c95666b0241d669d282806e4f724fbb37caf. > There's even no notice in the changelog of the breakage, which is quite > obvious by inspecting the diff. > > This is a serious matter because it broke production code. Was there a > reason for the breakage? We should make sure breaking changes are > avoided or get a lot of scrutiny if they are really necessary. > > I wonder how we can improve the process to avoid such issues in the future. > > > Andrei
What code did break? I did use std.json heavily myself before this pull request and it was basically unusable (hence the pull to improve the api), so I tried to expand std.json without breaking backwards compatability, the tests ran through also my code still worked.
