Seems barely maintained and there was a proposed replacement claiming it was broken(http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/std.signal) that never got approved.

Is std.signals worth using over a dub package?

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 21:54:01 +0000, weaselcat wrote:

> Seems barely maintained and there was a proposed replacement claiming it
> was broken(http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/std.signal)
> that never got approved.
> 
> Is std.signals worth using over a dub package?

they both suxalot. both of them are ugly, and people tend to avoid ugly things. i believe that singal/slot concept must have some support in the compiler. i don't want to throw all that stupid templates everywhere, and i don't want to mixin things manually. i want to tell the compiler that this method is @signal, that method is @slot, and compiler will happily do the hidden things for me. the same with `connect` and `emit`. ah, and `emit` must be keyword, just like in Qt.

i will do that in Aliced eventually.

the only thing i'm unsure is `connect`: i still can't think out the nice syntax for it. maybe i'll reintroduce that nice C arrow ("->"), but this time for good. ;-)

On Thursday, March 05, 2015 21:54:01 weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Seems barely maintained and there was a proposed replacement claiming it was broken(http://wiki.dlang.org/Review/std.signal) that never got approved.
>
> Is std.signals worth using over a dub package?

I think that the wiki page pretty much says what needs to be said. Any replacament to std.signals would have to get through the Phobos review queue, and that hasn't happened yet. And aside from a few folks, there has been very little interest in it one way or the other. So, std.signals will be around for a quite a while and so you shouldn't have to worry about needing to switch your code to something else anytime soon if you use std.signals, but if you want something where active work is being done on it, then you'll need to find an implementation elsewhere.  Given the dates on std.signals, it looks like it was done for D1 by Walter Bright and has just kind of stuck around since without getting any kind of overhaul, so it may or may not be of a particularly relevant design at this point (I've never used it or really looked at it, so I have no idea how suitable it is at this point).  But I expect that which solution you should use really depends on what you're looking for and what the available solutions provide.

- Jonathan M Davis