On 28 August 2012 00:08, Maxim Fomin
<maxim@maxim-fomin.ru> wrote:
On Monday, 27 August 2012 at 20:29:15 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
That guy just have to rework 5 projects. This is quite a lot of work.
Obviously, that change have to be done. But you can't just impose such a change on users. Their agenda isn't synchronized with D's.
D NEED a better versioning scheme, as explained MANY times here already.
1) decided to use a not fully designed language feature
Where is that stated? It appeared to be a perfectly good, working, and awesome(!) language feature.
2) used this feature in public API when working with DLLs (which is by itself a problematic area)
Are you suggesting using DLL's is asking for trouble? Dynamic linkage is a fundamental part of software.
3) integrated this with other language in a a way that require substantial rewrite and possibly redesign
D will interact with other languages in the real world, if anything, my doing so and talking about my approach and experience is a service.
4) updated compiler
No shit, D has loads of bugs which are rapidly fixed all the time.
which I consider a process of looking for problems and no excuse for making code-break change. Anyway, older version of compiler is available.
Whatever.