module std.stream is deprecated - Will be removed by phobos version 2.070

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 1 May 2016 at 17:06:19 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 May 2016 at 14:31:10 UTC, Bauss wrote:
>> On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 20:29:56 UTC, Vladimir 
>> Panteleev wrote:
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3631
>>>
>>> Apparently it was decided at DConf 2015 to remove std.stream 
>>> and friends from Phobos. But these modules have been left 
>>> untouched (i.e. they're "stable") for a long time, and 
>>> there's a lot of D code using them. This decision seems to go 
>>> in an opposite direction to other recent decisions (i.e. that 
>>> we stop breaking code). Is everyone (incl. Walter AND Andrei) 
>>> on board with this?
>>
>> Please yes. Why people still use it is beyond me.
>
> Baus: I posted to this issue because Andrei suggested to move 
> undead to dlang and it didn't happen yet. std.stream is already 
> set to deprecation in October 2016. This thread is from last 
> year. I should have opened a new thread - sorry about that.
>
>> Please yes. Why people still use it is beyond me.
>
> Because they have an existing codebase and don't want to change 
> it, see the following issue as an disucssion:
>
> https://github.com/biod/BioD/issues/19

It would also give a better impression if the sample D programs 
packaged with the dmd compiler didn't use it: d2html.d, htmlget.d 
and wc2.d do not compile because of that (they also have several 
deprecation messages). I just installed 2.73.0 on our Linux 
server at work and to test if everything was ok (I have to 
install by hand because of strange restrictive policies e have 
here) and discovered that the sample programs are completely 
outdated.
If I get the time this week I will try to contribute and fix it.