[phobos] The move notice in std.string

Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 05:00:31 PDT 2012


On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, July 15, 2012 12:55:27 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> See: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html
>>
>> Do we still need to keep that notice around? It's been a long time
>> since these symbols were moved and I haven't encountered any code in
>> the wild that still relies on them.
>
> No, I think that that can be removed. There are some related code changes that
> need to be made as well (primarily public imports which should be removed),
> but when I went to do them earlier, it broke the dmd tests, and I haven't
> gotten back to it yet - though the list of deprecations and removals for this
> release is getting long enough (due to the delayed release) that I'm starting
> to be tempted to delay some of them by a release. We really should look at
> doing a release soon.

Yes... yes we should. It's been way too long.

>
> But if you want to, you can remove the notice, and I can sort out the related
> code changes later.

I'm fine with waiting until the next release if we want to keep the
deprecation list reasonable.

Regards,
Alex


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