Upgrade windows dependencies

[kpcyrd]

hey!

I've noticed the windows dependencies are outdated:

• winapi 0.2 was bumped to 0.3
• miow 0.2 was bumped to 0.3
• kernel32-sys 0.2 was been superseded by winapi 0.3

Getting this fixed would allow us to upload mio into debian, which is a significant step of uploading tokio.

Thanks!

[hawkw]

I believe updating the winapi version is a breaking change, which is why this hasn't been done yet (see carllerche/iovec#16 (comment), #658). IIRC, updating the winapi dependency to 0.3 is planned for the 0.7 release of mio.

[steffengy]

It actually landed in the 0.7 branch in january.
Since the plan is/was to finish the remaining work for the 0.7 milestone to bundle up breaking changes,
I would - taking the past 6 months into account - not bank on this being released any time soon.

[carllerche]

As mentioned, it is a breaking change with far reaching impact.

The original plan has been to coordinate the release w/ futures, but I do not know when they plan to release now.

Either way, I will close this as the upgrade is being tracked.

[kpcyrd]

Is there a patch we could apply in debian to get mio 0.6 to work with winapi 0.3?

Given this was fixed in January and a release is not going to happen in the foreseeable future, did you consider splitting up the release until smaller releases? As somebody who pushed out a whole bunch of pull requests to update dependencies recently, adapting to 3 breaking changes over 3 releases or 3 breaking changes in a single release doesn't make much of a difference from a library consumer point of view. I've noticed that large breaking updates are actually more likely to cause outdated dependencies because it's too much effort at once.