[phobos] std.regexp deprecation?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, July 15, 2012 20:50:10 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> While we're on the subject of deprecations, what's going to happen to
> std.regexp? It was apparently deprecated in 2.055 which is quite a few
> moons ago.

We're stuck with it right now. The problem is std.file.listDeps. listDeps can't 
be removed yet, because it has an overload with functionality which dirEntries 
doesn't have (something to do with glob matching IIRC), and listDeps uses 
std.regexp (that exact overload IIRC). Until someone goes and creates an 
appropriate overload of dirEntries, we can't remove listDeps, so we can't 
remove std.regexp. Someone (cyershadow? who I think is Vlladimir?) was 
supposedly going to create a pull request for it when it first came up, but 
that never materialized, and neither I nor anyone else has spent the time to 
deal with it. But I'm far from an expert with regexes, so I've been a bit 
reticent to tackle the problem, and I've had plenty of else to do. So, it's 
just sat there. It's not the end of the world for deprecated stuff to sit 
around for a while (it _is_ deprecated, after all, so the compiler will 
complain if you use it), but we really do need to get that sorted out so that 
listDeps and std.regexp can be removed.

- Jonathan M Davis