std2 project started

[Marcin Kuszczak]

Bill Baxter wrote:

> Phobos in D2.x contains some nifty additions.
> Most of those additions really do not depend on D2 language features in
> any significant way, yet the source code is incompatible with the D1.x
> compiler because of const and invariant.
> 
> Meanwhile, it has been decreed that Phobos 1.x won't be getting any
> further updates besides bug fixes, that Phobos 1.x will just retain its
> gaping API holes forever.
> 
> This project aims to make some of the Phobos 2.x functionality available
> to D1.x users via a 'std2' package.
> 
> Currently the port consists of the following Phobos 2.006 modules:
> 
>     std2.contracts
>     std2.conv
>     std2.getopt
>     std2.string
>     std2.traits
>     std2.variant
> 
> The url for checkout is
>     http://svn.dsource.org/projects/std2/trunk/std2
> 
> The idea is that you substitute one of those std2 modules in place of an
> import of the regular std module to get the new functionality.
> 
> I don't plan to spend a whole lot of time on this, but it shouldn't
> require a whole lot of time.  The above modules took about an hour to
> port altogether.  Volunteers to port new modules and apply updates when
> new DMD's are released are certainly welcome.
> 
> --bb

Great! I will probably port Program Options into variant from std2.

Thanks!

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