std.experimental Timeline

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 2 January 2016 at 04:27:02 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 20:10:22 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Idea of any "automatic" inclusion is very harmful because by 
>> current standard std.experimental modules are not required to 
>> have Phobos quality and can be very far from being good enough.
>
> My proposal was based on the quality of std.logger and 
> std.allocator when they were merged. I wasn't aware that 
> modules that were unfinished could be merged into 
> std.experimental.

IIRC, the review for std.experimental.logger specifically left 
some stuff hanging with the idea that it would be sorted out in 
experimental, but I could be remembering wrong. Regardless, a 
certain level of quality is required for something to get into 
std.experimental, because it has to pass the review and vote, but 
that review and vote is no longer done with the expectation that 
what's there is necessarily set in stone when it gets merged 
(otherwise, there's no point to std.experimental). It should be 
solid, but there is now the potential for redesign on some level 
before it gets into std, whereas before, it would have just gone 
into std, and we basically had to get it right up front.

Having another review for something like std.experimental.logger 
before it gets merged into Phobos makes sense, because it would 
allow us to have an open discussion on anything that needs to be 
changed now that folks have been using it. And if it's ready to 
go (potentially decided by a vote), then we could merge it. But 
without that review, the only stuff that will have changed is 
stuff that gets reported in bugzilla or that a Phobos dev 
specifically decided to change. If we want to actually find out 
how well it's been working for folks, then we need a way to get 
feedback based on actual usage and discuss it. Another review 
doesn't necessarily have to be the way that we do that, but it's 
probably the best mechanism that we have.

- Jonathan M Davis