[phobos] std.regexp deprecation?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 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.

I see no function named listDeps though? Do you mean listDir or something?

Regards,
Alex