glob: Deprecate the library in favor of cargo

[alexcrichton]

This library has been moved out to a cargo package in rust-lang.

[steveklabnik]

😍

[tshepang]

Am curious, why is this being removed?

[alexcrichton]

This package is being moved outside of the repository, not removed outright. It will be easier to develop, version, and depend on outside of the standard distribution.

https://github.com/rust-lang/glob

[tshepang]

@alexcrichton is there a discussion regarding this somewhere? My quick searches fail me. I want to know, for example, whether it's not deemed important enough to be part of the stdlib, or whether some drastic changes are about to happen to it, without the (supposedly) more stringent stdlib back-compact requirements.

[alexcrichton]

There is an old mailing list thread that spurred discussion here: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-July/010842.html

And then there is another mailing list thread which made the process official here: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-July/010956.html

[tshepang]

The links were more than adequate, thanks much.