Subteam report: libs 2015-08-07

Highlights

First off, we had a great RustCamp last weekend! As many of us were involved with the event, it was a bit of a slow week.

Decisions from last week:

RFC PR #1184: RFC: Stabilize the #![no_std] attribute
- Merged
RFC PR #1183: RFC: Allow changing the default allocator
- Merged
RFC PR #770: io error handling design
- Closed
RFC PR #980: read_exact
- Merged
RFC PR #1194: RFC: Add item recovery collection APIs
- To be merged, pending last bits of bikeshedding
PR #26818: Stabilize duration (with renamings)
- Merge, need to decide about 1.3 backport

We'd like to call attention to the following two policy RFCs:

as well as an RFC relating to catch_panic and exception safety in Rust:

This week's RFCs going into (or staying in) final comment period:

PR #1036: Add Builder guidelines
PR #1100: Add thread-local custom panic handlers to customize the behavior of thread panics
PR #1147: Target Version
PR #1158: RFC: Expand the std::net module
PR #1168: Make size an associated constant
PR #1198: pretty print Debug of tuples, tuple structs and enum variants in a single line
PR #1212: RFC: line-endings
PR #1213: RFC: The Life and Death of an API
PR #1218: RFC: Checked integer conversions
PR #1224: Update the RFC process with sub-teams, amongst other things.
PR #1232: RFC: remove weak pointers
PR #1233: RFC: Add Box::leak to leak Box to &'static mut T
PR #1235: Add BufRead::fill_buf_min()
PR #1236: RFC: Stabilize catch_panic
PR #1238: Nonparametric dropck
PR #1242: RFC: policy for rust-lang crates
FCP PR #1192: RFC for inclusive ranges with ...
FCP PR #1194: RFC: Add item recovery collection APIs
FCP PR #1195: ordered query API