dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

[Yao G.]

Thanks Steven. I was waiting for this for a long time.


On Wed, 19 May 2010 11:09:11 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> After much work and toil, I have created dcollections for D2.  I think I  
> can say that this is the first collection package available for D2.  I  
> still hold hope that it will be used as the standard collection package  
> for phobos for D2.
>
> Please visit http://www.dsource.org/projects/dcollections for details.
>
> Some VERY IMPORTANT notes for this release:
>
> 1. it is very beta software.  Although the implementation has changed  
> very little from the 1.0 version, not everything will properly compile.   
> I have filed several compiler bugs to fix some problems I had while  
> porting, and inserted workarounds for things I could work around.   
> Please use the LATEST compiler (currently 2.046) because some very  
> important features have been added that dcollections relies on.   
> Although it is beta, the algorithms and implementation is largely  
> unchanged so functionality should be pretty solid.
>
> 2. the docs are not online for d2.  Unfortunately, dsource's  
> auto-doc-generator that I was using for the 1.0 version is based on a  
> 1.0 compiler, so it will not automatically generate the d2 docs.   
> However, I have included some basic ddoc generated docs in the download  
> package, don't expect them to be very fun to use :)
>
> 3. The docs are not fully updated, so they might be just flat out  
> wrong!  I plan to update the docs completely for the next beta release.
>
> So, for the good stuff... here are some notes for differences between  
> 1.0 and 2.0:
>
>      * Ranges!
>      * Filled out slicing for all containers
>      * Cursors are now non-movable.  Use ranges for safe iteration.
>      * The interfaces have been cut down significantly. The question I  
> asked myself when deciding whether I wanted to keep an interface is  
> "would anyone use this interface?"
>      * Functions that should be fast but can be slow (O(n)) have been  
> removed from all interfaces, and in most cases, from the containers.  
> Notably missing is searching a non-quick lookup container for a value.  
> Use std.algorithm.find for that.
>      * ArrayMultiset has been removed -- it's complexity functions did  
> not fit with the multiset requirements (specifically, quick lookup of an  
> element's presence).
>      * ArrayList slicing now simply returns a range instead of a "live"  
> slice.  Note that an ArrayList range is aliased to a D array.
>      * Full unit tests added for all container types.
>
> I have also changed the license from BSD to Boost.
>
>
> --------
>
> I have also formally released version 0.03 as version 1.0, nothing has  
> changed there, including the license.  However, no new features will be  
> added to dcollections version 1.0, only bug fixes will be done.
>
> Please, file tickets on dsource for any problems you have.  And let me  
> know if there are any ideas you think would be useful.
>
> -Steve


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