On 8/24/18 5:12 PM, Meta wrote:
On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 17:12:53 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I got bitten by this just yesterday. Update dmd git master, update
vibe.d git master, now my vibe.d project doesn't compile anymore due
to some silly string.d error somewhere in one of vibe.d's
dependencies. :-/
While we're airing grievances about code breakages, I hit this little
gem the other day, and it annoyed me enough to complain about it:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5291#issuecomment-414196174
What really gets me is the actual removal of the symbol. If it had been
left there with a deprecation message, I would've caught the problem
immediately at the source and fixed it in a few minutes. Instead, I
spent an hour or so tracing "execution" paths through a codebase that
I'm unfamiliar with to figure out why a static if branch is no longer
being taken.
According to this comment:
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5291#issuecomment-360929553
There was no way to get a deprecation to work.
When we can't get a deprecation to work, we face a hard decision --
actually break code right away, print lots of crappy errors, or just
leave the bug unfixed.
-Steve
