2016-01-08.md

Subteam report: libs 2016-01-08

Highlights

This week was devoted entirely to triage catch up: we discussed a large number of pending issues and PRs and issues decisions on them.

Next week we will reach final decisions on those features in final comment period for stabilization in 1.7.

Dashboard

High priority issues

• Issue #29008: stdlib Path has inconsistent normalisation behaviour

Issues needing a decision

RFC phase

• PR #1218: RFC: Checked integer conversions
• PR #1258: Add macros to get the values of configuration flags
• PR #1299: std::sync::mpsc::SharedSender
• PR #1309: OS string string-like interface
• PR #1320: Amend 1192 (RangeInclusive) to use an enum.
• PR #1325: Add panic-safe slicing methods
• PR #1353: Add retain_mut to Vec and VecDeque
• PR #1359: RFC: Add CommandExt::{exec, before_exec}
• PR #1379: Change thread local variables to only accept async-signal-safe types.
• PR #1393: Expand try! macro with additional case
• PR #1394: Add try_some macro equivalent to try!
• PR #1398: Allocators, take III
• PR #1415: RFC: Deprecate type aliases in std::os::*::raw
• PR #1419: Safe memcpy, memset for slices ([T]::{ copy_from, fill })
• PR #1423: Amend RFC 1270 to describe actual implementation
• PR #1432: String/Vec::replace_range(RangeArgument, IntoIterator)
• PR #1434: 'Contains' method for ranges
• PR #1443: Extend atomic compare_and_swap

Implementation phase

• Issue #19986: Tracking issue for collections reform part 2 (RFC 509)
• Issue #21923: Audit raw pointer to reference conventions
• Issue #22477: Tracking issue for Add a generic string pattern matching API (RFC 528)
• Issue #23055: Tracking issue for Replace Vec::drain by a method that accepts a range parameter (RFC 574)
• Issue #24263: discriminant_value intrinsic -- tracking issue for 639
• Issue #27517: Add ByNeed and Predicate traits
• Issue #28628: Tracking issue for forbidding wildcard deps on crates.io
• Issue #29453: Add Capacity/length methods for OsString

Stabilization phase

• FCP Issue #23284: Tracking issue for Path::relative_from stabilization
• FCP Issue #27709: Tracking issue for Ipv{4,6}Addr convenience methods
• FCP Issue #27712: Tracking issue for fs_mode stabilization
• FCP Issue #27713: Tracking issue for custom hashers in HashMap
• FCP Issue #27722: Tracking issue for path_prefix stabilization
• FCP Issue #27728: Tracking issue for formatting with a radix
• FCP Issue #27729: Tracking issue for as_slice stabilization
• FCP Issue #27735: Tracking issue for IntoCow stabilization
• FCP Issue #27739: Tracking issue for Zero/One/iter_arith stabilization
• FCP Issue #27750: Tracking issue for clone_from_slice stabilization
• FCP Issue #27753: Tracking issue for num_bits_bytes stabilization
• FCP Issue #27755: Tracking issue for wrapping stabilization
• FCP Issue #27782: Tracking issue for DebugTuple::formatter
• FCP Issue #27791: Tracking issue for str escaping
• FCP Issue #27798: Tracking issue for sync::Semaphore
• FCP Issue #28796: Tracking issue for FnBox()
• FCP Issue #29157: Tracking issue for owned CString conversions
• FCP Issue #30423: Tracking issue for slice::sort_by_key
• Issue #27389: Tracking issue for changing the global, default allocator (RFC 1183)
• Issue #27700: Tracking issue for allocation APIs
• Issue #27703: Tracking issue for stabilizing randomness
• Issue #27705: Tracking issue for DNS in std::net
• Issue #27708: Tracking issue for as_unsafe_cell stabilization
• Issue #27714: Tracking issue for str_utf16 stabilization
• Issue #27715: Tracking issue for Scoped TLS
• Issue #27716: Tracking issue for thread_local_state stabilization
• Issue #27717: Tracking issue for static synchronization primitives
• Issue #27719: Tracking issue for catch_panic stabilization
• Issue #27720: Tracking issue for OpenOptionsExt on Windows
• Issue #27721: Tracking issue for string patterns
• Issue #27726: Tracking issue for access to Formatter flags/options
• Issue #27730: Tracking issue for NonZero/Unique/Shared stabilization
• Issue #27731: Tracking issue for SIMD support
• Issue #27732: Tracking issue for DST coercions (coerce_unsized, unsize) stabilization
• Issue #27733: Tracking issue for borrow_state stabilization
• Issue #27738: Tracking issue for reentrant mutexes
• Issue #27741: Tracking issue for step_by stabilization
• Issue #27745: Tracking issue for type_id stabilization
• Issue #27746: Tracking issue for cell_extras stabilization
• Issue #27747: Tracking issue for slice_concat_ext stabilization
• Issue #27748: Tracking issue for wait_timeout_with stabilization
• Issue #27749: Tracking issue for Reflect stabilization
• Issue #27751: Tracking issue for raw stabilization
• Issue #27752: Tracking issue for float_extras stabilization
• Issue #27754: Tracking issue for str_char stabilization
• Issue #27778: Tracking issue for core::array
• Issue #27779: Tracking issue for placement new
• Issue #27780: Tracking issue for <*mut T, *const T>::{as_ref, as_mut_ref}
• Issue #27783: Tracking issue for location of facade crates
• Issue #27784: Tracking issue for char encoding methods
• Issue #27787: Tracking issue for sorted collection ranges
• Issue #27788: Tracking issue for VecDeque Extras
• Issue #27794: Tracking issue for extra linked list methods
• Issue #27800: Tracking issue for channel selection
• Issue #27802: Tracking issue for Read::chars
• Issue #27809: Tracking issue for make_ascii_{upper,lower}case
• Issue #27811: Tracking issue for CommandExt::session_leader
• Issue #27812: Tracking issue for crates that are compiler dependencies
• Issue #28147: Tracking issue for BinaryHeap::{push_pop, replace}
• Issue #28356: Tracking issue for Arc/Rc extras
• Issue #29553: Tracking issue for #[bench] and benchmarking support
• Issue #29791: Tracking issue for getting pthread_t from JoinHandle
• Issue #29866: Expand the std::time module
• Issue #30752: Tracking issue for panic::propagate