- Deprecates Format.decodeSegment (returning a range of GemericPath.Segment) and added decodeSingleSegment instead, which returns a string instead.
- Adds Format.encodeSegment to encode a single path segment
Since the semantics are different w.r.t. path separators, the alternative suggested in the deprecation message is not valid. At least until the comparison/toString semantics of PathSegment have a profound definition, it will be kept around to avoid unneeded interruptions when upgrading to 0.8.x.
The previous design, while intended as an improvement over the one-size-fits all Path struct of vibe-d:core, turned out to produce lots of bugs during the transition, because of missing Path.type checks.
The new design uses a cleaner approach, where the static type of a path value encodes the path format. An explicit cast is necessary to convert between different path types. The internet path type also performs proper validation and percent encoding, so that InetPath.toString() always produces a valid URI path.
The library is able to support simple TCP servers in the current state. The API is still mostly compatible with mainline vibe.d, but the driver systen has been replaced by the eventcore library and sockets/files/timers/... are now structs with automatic reference counting instead of GC collected classes. The stream interfaces have been removed for now.
