Phobos in D2.x contains some nifty additions.
Most of those additions really do not depend on D2 language features in any significant way, yet the source code is incompatible with the D1.x compiler because of const and invariant.

Meanwhile, it has been decreed that Phobos 1.x won't be getting any further updates besides bug fixes, that Phobos 1.x will just retain its gaping API holes forever.

This project aims to make some of the Phobos 2.x functionality available to D1.x users via a 'std2' package.

Currently the port consists of the following Phobos 2.006 modules:

   std2.contracts
   std2.conv
   std2.getopt
   std2.string
   std2.traits
   std2.variant

The url for checkout is
   http://svn.dsource.org/projects/std2/trunk/std2

The idea is that you substitute one of those std2 modules in place of an import of the regular std module to get the new functionality.

I don't plan to spend a whole lot of time on this, but it shouldn't require a whole lot of time.  The above modules took about an hour to port altogether.  Volunteers to port new modules and apply updates when new DMD's are released are certainly welcome.

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:

> Phobos in D2.x contains some nifty additions.
> Most of those additions really do not depend on D2 language features in
> any significant way, yet the source code is incompatible with the D1.x
> compiler because of const and invariant.
> 
> Meanwhile, it has been decreed that Phobos 1.x won't be getting any further updates besides bug fixes, that Phobos 1.x will just retain its gaping API holes forever.
> 
> This project aims to make some of the Phobos 2.x functionality available to D1.x users via a 'std2' package.
> 
> Currently the port consists of the following Phobos 2.006 modules:
> 
>     std2.contracts
>     std2.conv
>     std2.getopt
>     std2.string
>     std2.traits
>     std2.variant
> 
> The url for checkout is
>     http://svn.dsource.org/projects/std2/trunk/std2
> 
> The idea is that you substitute one of those std2 modules in place of an import of the regular std module to get the new functionality.
> 
> I don't plan to spend a whole lot of time on this, but it shouldn't require a whole lot of time.  The above modules took about an hour to port altogether.  Volunteers to port new modules and apply updates when new DMD's are released are certainly welcome.
> 
> --bb

Great! I will probably port Program Options into variant from std2.

Thanks!

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