Ian Smith

Provide an easier-to-use rand API

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I saw that issue #728 hit a dead end a while ago, and I figured that with the somewhat recent stabilization of const generics that it could be picked up...

Add async support

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The only blocking operation in this entire crate is the `synchronize` method on `Core`. This should be able to to be readily converted into a future. This different API could...

Relax atomic orderings

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Currently this crate uses `SeqCst` orderings for all atomic operations related to logger initialization. At most these orderings would need to be `AcqRel` since they only involve a single atomic....

Currently, whenever an appender is used this enables the `pattern_encoder` feature. This feature in turn pulls in `chrono`. This can be a bit frustrating for users if they are supplying...

Make `parking_lot` feature fully optional

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Currently, if you use the `file_appender` or `rolling_file_appender` features then this pulls `parking_lot` into the dependency tree. This PR would keep `parking_lot` as a default, but allow users to use...