On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 05:14:16 +0000, FoxyBrown wrote: > > You can make any claim you want like: "The end user should install in to > a clean dir so that DMD doesn't get confused and load a module that > doesn't actually have any implementation" but that's just your opinion.
I have never seen extracting into the directory as a supported upgrade path for anything except the simplest of applications and a few PHP projects that supply a migration script. > At the end of the day it only makes you and dmd look bad when it doesn't > work because of some lame minor issue that could be easily fixed. It > suggests laziness["Oh, there's a fix but I'm too lazy to add it"], > arrogance["Oh, it's the end users fault, let them deal with it"], and a > bit of ignorance. The only solution I can think of is never splitting a module in Phobos; the alternative would be to change the way the module system works (which seems to be what you want), and that's going to break everybody's everything.
