== Quote from foobar ([email protected])'s article > Recent threads discuss how D should incorporate a mechanism to version symbols/modules. > E.g. std.xml[2], std.io vs. std.stdio and std.regex[p]. > My question is WHY? > D *already* employes Git and there is no point in reimplementing it inside > the D language/tools. > I suggest this simple zero-implementation scheme [KISS!]: > use git tags to tag Phobos releases and advertise the decided upon version scheme in the docs. Make sure to document APIs with the minimum required Phobos release version [git tag!] and add a "Releases" web-page that documents API changes. > If someone needs a specific (older) version of e.g. std.xml he/she will simply download the specific version of Phobos already available publicly online.
You miss the point. The point isn't to make it **possible** to make old code work. It's to make it **automatic**. > PS > I think that std.stdio is not KISS and should be deprecated in favor of std.io If that much of my code is broken, I will fork Phobos just out of spite.
