On 2014-11-29 00:33, Walter Bright wrote:
Just for fun, I've decided to try and get MicroEmacs in D added to the
dub registry. The last time it compiled was 2 years ago.
I wound up with at least a dozen references to Phobos names that have
disappeared. No corrective action was indicated, just "undefined
symbol". I have to go refigure out what the code was trying to do, and
go poking through the Phobos documentation to see what will work today.
I know there's been a lot of "break my code" advocacy lately, but this
code was only 2 years old.
I fully understand how unfriendly this is to users and how discouraging
it can be to have their recently working code shattered and scattered.
We need to do a lot better.
Every single release since at least DMD 2.050 has broken DWT. Most of
these issues were language changes and not renamed symbols in Phobos.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
