Move thread RNG into a separate crate #1520
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This was previously discussed in #716 and recently raised in #1514.
The main disadvantage of moving thread RNG into its own crates is that users of
rand
(with default crate features) will have one additional dependency in their dependency tree. On the other hand,ThreadRng
can be now used without the rest ofrand
(e.g. in cryptographic applications). It also results in simpler configuration flags and thread RNG code, since we don't need to deal with the generality ofReseedingRng
.If
ReseedingRng
is not used in practice (cursory search on GitHub shows mostly vendoredrand
code), we probably can remove it completely or move into a separate crate.