Deprecate the tempdir crate

[KodrAus]

In Stebalien/tempfile#33 we combined the tempdir and tempfile APIs, with the goal of using the tempfile crate as the source of temporary files and directories going forward.

I've gone through and review the open issues here (and basically just closed them all). I think the next step is to propose deprecating this repository and moving into rust-lang-deprecated, with a note in the readme that tempfile is the place to go for temporary directories going forward.

What do you all think? Is there anything else we should consider?

[steveklabnik]

Is there any way we can signal this change to users? If I hadn't been subscribed here, I'd have had no idea.

[KodrAus]

Yeh, we'll definitely need to do that, I was hoping we could wait until there's a published version of tempfile folks can immediately get before we do though.

Maybe we can add a notice to the readme here now pointing users wanting to open issues to tempfile but note that tempdir 0.3.6 is still available in the meantime?

@Stebalien do you have a plan in mind for the next release of tempfile? It would need to be a 3.0.0 wouldn't it, unless we go back and deprecate/shim the changed APIs on NamedTempFile.

[Stebalien]

Yes, it would need a 3.0.0. Issue here: Stebalien/tempfile#43

[Stebalien]

3.0.0 has been released.

[KodrAus]

Awesome! This is exciting news!

So the next steps would be to shift this repository into the deprecated org, and put out some comms pointing folks to tempfile.

@Stebalien Were you planning to do a release announcement for the new version for tempfile?

[Stebalien]

So... Those usually go on reddit but I managed to lose my reddit password and have found that I really don't make another account (I spend enough time just reading reddit as it is).

Given that you did 99% of the work in this endeavor, want to make the announcement?

[KodrAus]

No problem 👍 I'll put something together along with a note about the tempdir deprecation and put it out tomorrow.

[KodrAus]

The announcement has been posted!

I'll work on the RFC to shift tempdir into the deprecated organisation.

[KodrAus]

:) I just came here to write an RFC for shifting into the deprecated org and found it was already here! I'll go ahead and close this one now.

[jethrogb]

@KodrAus as you correctly note an RFC is required for deprecation. This crate should be moved back to the nursery until such a time as deprecation has been approved.

[KodrAus]

@jethrogb What exactly do you hope to achieve by returning tempdir to the nursery?