2016-01-15.md

Subteam report: libs 2016-01-15

Highlights

This week, we made decisions on all the outstanding FCP issues for Rust 1.7:

• FCP Issue #23284: Tracking issue for Path::relative_from stabilization
  • Stabilize (with renaming and slight type change)
• FCP Issue #27709: Tracking issue for Ipv{4,6}Addr convenience methods
  • Stabilize subset of methods confirmed to match official spec
• FCP Issue #27712: Tracking issue for fs_mode stabilization
  • Deprecate in favor of libc
• FCP Issue #27713: Tracking issue for custom hashers in HashMap
  • Stabilize with renaming
• FCP Issue #27722: Tracking issue for path_prefix stabilization
  • Deprecate
• FCP Issue #27728: Tracking issue for formatting with a radix
  • Deprecate
• FCP Issue #27729: Tracking issue for as_slice stabilization
  • Stabilize
• FCP Issue #27735: Tracking issue for IntoCow stabilization
  • Deprecate
• FCP Issue #27739: Tracking issue for Zero/One/iter_arith stabilization
  • Punt
• FCP Issue #27750: Tracking issue for clone_from_slice stabilization
  • Stabilize with new panic behavior
• FCP Issue #27753: Tracking issue for num_bits_bytes stabilization
  • Deprecate
• FCP Issue #27755: Tracking issue for wrapping stabilization
  • Stabilize inherent methods
• FCP Issue #27782: Tracking issue for DebugTuple::formatter
  • Deprecate
• FCP Issue #27791: Tracking issue for str escaping
  • Punt
• FCP Issue #27798: Tracking issue for sync::Semaphore
  • Deprecate
• FCP Issue #28796: Tracking issue for FnBox()
  • Punt
• FCP Issue #29157: Tracking issue for owned CString conversions
  • Stabilize
• FCP Issue #30423: Tracking issue for slice::sort_by_key
  • Stabilize

Next week we return to our regular programming!

Dashboard

High priority issues

• Issue #29008: stdlib Path has inconsistent normalisation behaviour

Issues needing a decision

RFC phase

• FCP PR #1320: Amend 1192 (RangeInclusive) to use an enum.
• 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 #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 maybe! 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
• PR #1461: Move some net2 functionality into libstd

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 #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 #27798: Tracking issue for sync::Semaphore
• 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 #27739: Tracking issue for Zero/One/iter_arith stabilization
• 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 #27791: Tracking issue for str escaping
• 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 #27908: Tracking issue for drop_in_place
• Issue #28147: Tracking issue for BinaryHeap::{push_pop, replace}
• Issue #28356: Tracking issue for Arc/Rc extras
• Issue #28796: Tracking issue for FnBox()
• 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 #30449: Custom panic handlers in the standard library
• Issue #30752: Tracking issue for panic::propagate
• Issue #30877: Tracking issue for RangeArgument