0.9 release checklist

[littledivy]

The latest rewrite brought a lot of breaking changes for users, for the better. It will be part of 0.9 stable.

• &str, String, Vec and Box support.

These types were removed in the new rewrite but for 0.9 stable I'd like to get them back so its less painful to migrate from 0.8.

serde support has been removed. This was a major cause of memory leaks and inefficient. It is recommended to use the new impl classes support instead.

• Explain publishing pipeline in docs / example.

Automatic caching and fetching from GIthub releases has been removed. This was awkward and offered very little flexibility.

Instead, I've add support to lazy initialize the library; binary release, fetch and caching (if desired) is left to the user.

• Depreciate old CLI, print warning/error.

• Help other crates migrate to 0.9

Probably send a few PRs and open issues on active dependent crates. It will also help identify bugs.

[Sleepful]

oh yeah could not use &str as param, instead had to use &String (the compiler built it fine but IDK if it actually works)