The new std.process is ready for review
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 23 16:32:48 PST 2013
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:25:33 -0500, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>
wrote:
> On Saturday, February 23, 2013 16:09:43 H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> BTW, is "std.process2" just the temporary name, or are we seriously
>> going to put in a "std.process2" into Phobos? I'm hoping the former, as
>> the latter is unforgivably ugly.
>
> In previous discussions, it was agreed that future replacement modules
> would
> simply have a number appended to them like that (e.g. std.xml2 or
> std.random2). I don't think that that decision is irreversible, but
> unless
> someone can come up with a much better name, I'd expect it to stick, and
> it
> has the advantage of making it very clear that it's replacing the old
> one.
>
Yeah, I don't want to get into this discussion again. There are better
ways (at least IMO :), but they were not favored.
Once std.process2 is accepted, and in use for a long time, we can probably
deprecate std.process. But I don't know if std.process2 would then be
renamed. I can't remember what was decided.
-Steve
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