Next in Review Queue: The New std.path

[Nick Sabalausky]

"dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> 3.  All the stuff from the old std.path should be "scheduled for 
> deprecation".  Deprecating stuff breaks people's build processes and 
> should only be done after adequate warning.  I don't know a good way to 
> implement this for enums and aliases, though, which I guess begs the 
> question of whether DMD should support soft deprecation.
>

Isn't that what -d is for?

> 1.  Do we really need currentDirSymbol and parentDirSymbol?  AFAIK they're 
> standard across all operating systems that anyone cares about and everyone 
> can easily remember them.  I have never used the equivalents in the old 
> std.path and have never missed them.
>
> 4.  This module might be useful at compile time.  As pointed out on this 
> forum, Phobos should eventually include tests for CTFE-ability.  It would 
> be nice if std.path had a few CTFE unit tests sprinkled in.
>

Seconded, on both #1 and #4.