On 16/07/2012 23:26, SomeDude wrote:
On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 14:28:45 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 06:05:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've had a lot of my own working D code break because of name changes
in Phobos. This is extremely annoying. I can fully understand that it
drives people away. It's got to stop.
Name changes have been the least annoying breaking change I've come
across from using D. Language design being the biggest.
Luckily I've expected that, and recently hit has been very infrequent.
There are still changes that will be making big ripples (actually
maybe not so much if we are changing how we handle toHash...). Maybe
this unstable branch thing will allow us to make a bunch of a breaking
changes together when we have one of these required disruptions.
I don't think the unstable branch should give you the false idea that
you are free to make breaking changes, because in the end, they will be
incorporated in the stable branch, breaking code, or the users will be
stuck. So although there may be *some* breaking changes, they should
stay relatively limited. Each breaking change should increment the x
number in the 2.x.y scheme. So if the x moves too quickly, the stabe and
unstable branches will quickly diverge to become unreconciliable.
This is exactly the reason why the 3 digit versionning system exists.
