Rework optional dependencies to discourage direct use as Cargo features #589
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This affects #588: We've renamed the
zerocopy-unstable
feature to simplyzerocopy
. You still need theuuid_unstable
RUSTFLAGS cfg to use it, but this avoids starting to accumulate a lot of dead features as they stabilize. That way if we promotezerocopy
to a stable feature users don't need to change what features they enable, they can simply stop settinguuid_unstable
.This also renames all of our internal optional dependencies so that they discourage direct use by end-users. Otherwise we'd be stuck in a place where changes to what optional dependencies we use could break any dependents that set those features. Some optional dependencies are pure implementation details that end users shouldn't be tinkering with directly, but some of them aren't. So this tries to distinguish them better.