On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 02:30:29 UTC, Seb wrote:
On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 19:01:02 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Hi all,
Eduard, Alexandru Jercaianu and I are working on improving
allocators' design and implementation. This entails a few
breaking changes.
In order to make matters easier for code using allocators,
Sebastian Wilzbach created a dub package freezing the existing
API: http://code.dlang.org/packages/stdx-allocator. Please use
that until we work the kinks out of allocators - great things
are coming! - and after that feel free to upgrade code to use
the new and improved allocators.
I just pushed a couple of fixes [1] for older Phobos versions
and stdx-allocator now works down until 2.072.2.
If someone needs an older Phobos version to work with
stdx-allocator, please let me know.
Also switching to stdx-allocator is rather easy, e.g.:
```
sed -i "s/std[.]experimental/stdx/g" **/*.d
```
[1]
https://github.com/wilzbach/stdx-allocator/commit/d06e4f2bae2eee5d380d145221ecb9cab04c90d7
Just a friendly reminder to people that experimental isn't
expected to be stable.
2.079 will come with this change, switch to stdx-allocator
package if you prefer stability. stdx-allocator provides the
current code and works down until 2.072.
https://dlang.org/changelog/pending.html#std-experimental-allocator-rciallocator
https://code.dlang.org/packages/stdx-allocator
Also note that only vibe.d ~>= 0.8.3-alpha.1 and vibe-core ~>=
1.4.0-alpha.1 use this package.
(though while most projects have been upgraded manually, I hope
that we can get a new release of Vibe.d out there soon to avoid
any issues - see [1]).
[1] https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/issues/2058
