On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:30:53 -0400, John C wrote: > What strategies do library authors have for maintaining two > versions of a their code - one for D 1.0 and another for 2.0? > When they make changes to one version, do they manually copy > them into the other branch? Or is there a way of automating > the process? > > Version blocks don't seem to help much. > > I'm finding it very tedious and somewhat haphazard going the > manual route - it's easy to forget, and sometimes I get so > carried away adding new code to my 1.0 library that it's a > struggle to recall every line I've changed. > > Ideally, I'd just update the 1.0 branch and run a script to > make the necessary changes for it to compile with DMD 2.0. Do > Unix/Linix people use the patch command for this (and is there > a Windows equivalent)?
You're correct in that version{} is no help at all. I use a text macro program to help me. -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia skype: derek.j.parnell