On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 14:27:02 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 14:11:13 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Historically 2 approaches has been practiced:
1) argue a lot and then do nothing
2) suddenly change something and tell users is was necessary
These are one and the same, just from the two opposing points
of view.
</sarcasm> :)
I also think that this is much more important issue than this
whole thread but it does not seem to attract any real
attention when mentioned.
You mean the whole policy on breaking changes?
Yes. I have given up about this idea at some point as there
seemed to be consensus that no breaking changes will be even
considered for D2 and those that come from fixing bugs are not
worth the fuss. This is exactly why I was so shocked that Walter
has even started this thread. If breaking changes are actually
considered (rare or not), then it is absolutely critical to
define the process for it and put link to its description to
dlang.org front page.
