On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:33:51 -0800 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just for fun, I've decided to try and get MicroEmacs in D added to the dub > registry. The last time it compiled was 2 years ago. > > I wound up with at least a dozen references to Phobos names that have > disappeared. No corrective action was indicated, just "undefined symbol". I > have > to go refigure out what the code was trying to do, and go poking through the > Phobos documentation to see what will work today. > > I know there's been a lot of "break my code" advocacy lately, but this code > was > only 2 years old. > > I fully understand how unfriendly this is to users and how discouraging it > can > be to have their recently working code shattered and scattered. We need to do > a > lot better. like, for example, having some tool that will analyze the old code and autofix it/suggest replacement. oh, wait... such tool was suggested years ago and has no signs of "official blessing" until this year's summer! and now it can't fix two-year-old code.
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