Containers

[wobbles via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 10:25:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 21:11 +0000, bitwise via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 19:45:48 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm not sure how the container's I've built would be 
>> > integrated
>> 
>> I suppose what I'm suggesting would be to integrate my new 
>> containers and modify the spec to explain the new value type 
>> containers, and start deprecating the old containers as better 
>> versions become available...starting with Array(T)...
>> 
>> Or I could stop trying to make tangible contributions to D and 
>> just go bikeshed about =+
>
> Isn't the best route here to make a trivially accessible 
> library (via the Dub repository?) that people can choose to use 
> instead of the bits of Phobos that these data structures 
> replace? This will then allow the momentum of usage to apply 
> pressure for the Phobos ones to be deprecated and your new ones 
> to be absorbed into Phobos…

I do think this is the best option for all new libraries that are 
to be potentially merged into phobos.

It's how the python/Java world works too and I think they've done 
pretty well out of it.