Just tried to make some changes into one of my system management tools, written in D, but it's been about a year since I've had occasion to compile it, and the changes to D (or, rather, to Phobos) during that time have made it impossible for the private version of recls that I've used since the unfortunate divergence between recls/D and std.recls.

Walter, are you still averse to updating Phobos with the newer version of recls (D-standard compliant methods, FTP searching, additional methods), despite the considerable reductions in binary code size I've made in recent months (as documented in my Positive Integration column this year.

I'm still planning a new version of recls - recls2 - which will be smaller in source and object size, and also be a lot more flexible (with search criteria including size, date, etc.) and cover different hierarchical representations, but that's not going to be out until early next year, so 1.6 is the best bet.

I assume D's std.recls is dying on the vine as a result of it not being updated with later versions of the library. I can't see any solid reason to not update to 1.6.4 now, even if it does make the download fatter for a couple of months, since recls2 will be not-too-long (and it doesn't seem like the glacial pace of change in D's changed much while I've been away concentrating on other things; though I must acknowledge that I might have missed significant advances on my occasional visits).

(FWIW: anyone who wants to is welcome to download recls 1.6.4 from the http://recls.org/, but you'll need to sort out the issues that are baffling me with compatibility with later versions of the D compiler/phobos.)

Cheers


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Matthew wrote:

> http://www.extendedstl.com

:-)

-manfred

In article <dg17ll$2e6t$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Manfred Nowak says...
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>Matthew wrote:
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>> http://www.extendedstl.com
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>:-)

The book is still being written, so it's understandable that the wesite isn't much  more than a placeholder at the moment :)


Sean

"Sean Kelly" <sean@f4.ca> wrote in message news:dg1uu1$30b4$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> In article <dg17ll$2e6t$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Manfred Nowak says...
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>>Matthew wrote:
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>>> http://www.extendedstl.com
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>>:-)
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> The book is still being written, so it's understandable that the
> wesite isn't
> much  more than a placeholder at the moment :)

It is, but it might serve me to put a bit of advertainment up there. ;-)

Check it out now ...

"Matthew" <matthew@hat.stlsoft.dot.org> wrote in message news:dg0djp$1rtl$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I assume D's std.recls is dying on the vine as a result of it not being updated with later versions of the library. I can't see any solid reason
to
> not update to 1.6.4 now, even if it does make the download fatter for a couple of months, since recls2 will be not-too-long (and it doesn't seem like the glacial pace of change in D's changed much while I've been away concentrating on other things; though I must acknowledge that I might have missed significant advances on my occasional visits).

I think it would be better to wait a couple months for the lean & mean one. D is on a monthly update cycle, and so there's actually only a month to wait.