Please chime in here if you have any opinions about the fact that any scripts that do using SomeStdlib
(currently starting with DelimitedFiles
, but lots of others including Statistics
are on the chopping block too) are about to stop working in 1.9+ unless you are running those scripts in an environment where that stdlib has been explicitly ] add
ed
You’re missing “any scripts that don’t have an associated package environment”.
Yeah, I was figuring that was covered by the “unless you are running those scripts in an environment where that stdlib has been explicitly ] add
ed”
I feel that the time to remove standard libraries was v0.7. Semantic versioning may not be clear on this case, but this is going to be a surprising new source of errors for many users. Regardless of semver rules-lawyering, the benefit to removing previously-included functionality in a non-breaking minor release should be made more clear than it presently is.
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