On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 14:29:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> So we can keep the search path: `datetime.di`, then `datetime.d`, then `datetime/package.d`, and any one of them, as long as it has `module std.datetime;` at the top, can count equally as the package.d.

Sorry, isn't that how things work now? The problem here is that the compiler picks up the OLD datetime.d, and then things fail at the linking stage because symbols in the old datetime.d are not present in the new phobos.lib.

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 15:16:44 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Sorry, isn't that how things work now?

For modules, yes. For packages, no. That inconsistency is what I want to change.

So since we have a package here and the compiler doesn't allow you to define a package in the existing datetime.d, we have to move the file. And unzipping doesn't pick up that the file was moved and leaves old stuff behind.

b.d(1): Error: package name 'aa' conflicts with usage as a module name in file

That error shouldn't exist.

> The problem here is that the compiler picks up the OLD datetime.d

If we could just use datetime.d as the package file, there would be no old datetime.d anymore.