On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:28:37 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > One thing that confuses me a bit is why GDC and LDC need downstream > copies of druntime/phobos. Couldn't patches that fix the libraries for > certain archs/OSs be sent upstream, in order to reduce merging work and > always provide the latest release to users? Now that so many version > identifiers are standardized across DMD, GDC, LDC, and SDC, I think it'd > be beneficial to do this.
druntime is expected to have differing versions per compiler. Both Sean Kelly and Iain Buclaw would argue that - they have in the past. However, I would certainly hope that that would _not_ be the case with Phobos. It's supposed to be at a higher level and thus should generally be able to avoid such issues. - Jonathan M Davis
