dcollections 1.0 and 2.0a beta released

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 27/05/2010 11:32, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2010 10:06:32 -0400, Bruno Medeiros
> <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
>
>> On 24/05/2010 16:45, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> In the past I have built a C++ library that abstracted features of
>>>> the OS. My goal was to make it possible to dynamically load a module
>>>> that abstracted things like setting the IP address of a network
>>>> interface. My modules used std::string instead of char * to lookup
>>>> services to get objects that implement the interface. Big mistake. On
>>>> a later version of the standard C++ runtime, the private
>>>> implementation of std::string changed, so the dynamically loaded
>>>> libraries crashed horribly. No change in string's interface, just the
>>>> private stuff changed, but because it's a template, the code that
>>>> uses it necessarily has to be aware of it. We ended up ditching the
>>>> standard C++ library's version of string, and used STLPort so we
>>>> could control the library.
>>>>
>>>> I envision this same sort of problem would be likely with D
>>>> collection objects that were not used via interfaces.
>>>
>>> I see no problem retrofitting a no-interface container into a formal
>>> interface if so needed.
>>
>>
>> I don't understand this discussion: isn't the reason above pretty much
>> a dead-on hard requirement for the collections to have interfaces?
>> Something like, for example, an interface version of the range traits?
>
> Only if you wish to have binary compatibility with dynamic libs. Such a
> thing isn't likely today since dynamic libs aren't very well supported
> in D, and even phobos or dcollections isn't a dynamic lib.
>

Ah, nevermind, my mind slipped and I was thinking of any kind of 
library, that is, static ones as well.
Although even just dynamic library compatibility seems to be a valid 
enough case that we should consider from the start, even if its not well 
supported currently.


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer