On Friday, 28 November 2014 at 23:33:54 UTC, Walter Bright 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.
We have deprecation cycle of one year. Expecting unmaintained
application to compile after 2 years has passed is completely
unreasonable.
Almost every single D program out there breaks with _each_ DMD
release, Phobos deprecations are least of all evils there. Try
fixing that before complaining about #breakmycode
Also it feels like you consider D at stable version. It isn't.
There is a huge amount of work to be done before it can be
considered even honest 1.0.0 - doing something with scope,
finishing @nogc / rc attempts, cleaning up qualifier mess etc.
Once it is all done, maybe (maybe!) we can talk about stability.
Right now it is a fallacy.
