Phobos Versioning and Distribution

[pbackus]

From the forums:

After that we had a discussion about how to distribute Phobos. This mostly centered on what release cadence to use. I argued for linking the Phobos version to the edition release schedule. I think this is sensible and makes it easier for people to reason about which compiler/library pairing they are using. Walter was fine with that, but he does not want to use the "Edition" language to describe Phobos releases. I think this makes sense as Phobos doesn't really have editions, but following SemVer, it would have yearly major releases. This would mean that new features are released once per year, and bugfixes would be released on whatever the fast-cadence schedule is for DMD in between Yearly Edition roll-ups.

[atilaneves]

Having thought about this yesterday, I agree that new Phobos versions should be released at the same time as a new edition.

[LightBender]

This is awesome to hear, I wrote up a PR for the design doc to add this language: #19

[LightBender]

This has been approved and merged.