Lutger wrote:
Christopher Wright wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Who is going to do the work of reviewing these libraries for
compatibility?
The people :)
like in the wine database.
I would think some of that work could be automated. Of course, setting up
the automation could mean a fair bit of work...
You would need an acceptance testing framework. Otherwise you couldn't
tell whether the project does more than compile.
Granted, for D1 certainly, there have been only few changes that cause
semantic changes without syntactic changes. But in D2, that is not
necessarily the case.
I don't think that is needed to make such a list useful. Even if only some
people vote for compatibility with compilers and could post comments, that
would be useful to track down the state of affairs.
A non-compatibility list might be enough, and it's a lot less work. (Ie,
"compatible" only means "hasn't yet been shown to be incompatible"). Any
inactive project, once marked as non-compatible, is obviously going to
stay that way.
