On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 18:14:40 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:03:27 UTC, Matthias Klumpp
wrote:
On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 22:15:53 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
So do we need to put a reminder about the ABI being unstable
into set of every release notes to make sure we won't get
angry bug reports once users actually build their own D code
against your packages? ;)
Nah, there are several options here, one would simply be to
tell people not to use the distro packages with anything but
the default D compiler used in the respective Debian release.
So as long as one sticks to packages in the official apt repos,
all the libraries are guaranteed to be built with the
distributed compiler as well?
Yes. Unfortunately there will be three of them which aren't
compatible with each other, so we will kind of have to settle
with one as default.
When you mentioned that you'd read the release notes regarding
the ABI change, I got the impression that you had to manually
rebuild the world for that to happen – hence my tongue-in-cheek
remark about reminding you to do this in the release notes.
Well, it's a matter of telling the build admins or making a
proper transition package (doesn't exit yet for D), but yeah,
technically we'd need to rebuild all D stuff on ABI changes.
