On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 10:13:29 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Well, for all of the recent releases we made sure that there
was no breakage for new compiler versions. This release was an
exception, because I didn't manage to put out the fixed release
in time. The plan is to have all future releases go back to the
normal mode where the new compiler version always works.
Since std.experimental isn't involved from now on, it shouldn't
even be necessary anymore to put out new vibe.d releases for
new DMD versions, because DMD/Phobos already checks for
regressions against vibe.d and all breaking changes should
simply result in a deprecation warning.
That's fine, thanks.
As for the versioning scheme, currently almost all new releases
have some small breaking change or deprecation. If I'd use the
"minor" version for that, then there would be no way to signal
that a release makes broad and more disruptive changes, such as
the 0.8.0 release. But all of this will change, as the
remaining parts get pushed to separate repositories one-by-one,
with their own version starting at 1.0.0.
I understand your reasoning, but there's value in being able to
just rapidly fix something with a new release, or just port some
master bug-fixes into a released version branch.
DMD is experiencing a very enjoyable release process of patch
versions, thanks to Martin and the team.
It your concern is only related to the best way to inform the
users about a broad and disruptive change in vibe-d, I suggest to
simply use the usual channels for that, change logs and announce
forum.
My impression is that there's a lot of value in using patch for
patch, instead of using patch for development, also in a zero
major, so I maybe you should consider that change, or at least,
investigate a little about that opportunity.
/Paolo