std.fileformats?

[JN]

On Monday, 6 January 2020 at 19:40:10 UTC, berni44 wrote:
> b) Should we instead remove some of these? Probably std.zip is 
> here the first candidate. (I put some work in it in the last 
> few weeks, but it would be fine for me throwing this away.)
>
> It's on a gut level - just wondering, what you think about this.
>
> [1] https://code.dlang.org/packages/std-experimental-xml

IMO all except base64 could be removed. Putting everything into 
the standard library made a lot of sense in the times before we 
got a package manager. Nowadays it might be better to simplify 
the standard library and just have XML, JSON, ZIP, CSV as 
"blessed" packages.