On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 16:21:18 UTC, ixid wrote:
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 15:57:38 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
But "sanity" and "API versioning" may exist at opposite ends
of a spectrum, if I recall my history.
What are the downsides?
Issues, off the top of my head: figuring out which is which in
the first place, separate compilation causing multiple modules
to pull in different versions of the same symbols, run-time
linking hell when external libraries are added to the mix, and
library bloat when different projects depend on different
versions. I'm reasonably certain there are other things too.
It _might_ be possible to do sanely if this had all been worked
out from the outset for D/D2, but I'm not at all confident that
it's possible to retrofit (rather, I expect it isn't).
-Wyatt
