Eliza Weisman

> @hawkw mentioned in discord that she'd like a way to get a weak ref to a dispatcher, but noted that can be done in followup PR. Yeah. I would...

> I think that Vector is the main public user of the re-exported prelude traits (see [this search](https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=use+tracing_subscriber%3A%3Aprelude%3A%3A__tracing_subscriber_SubscriberExt%3B), cc: @tobz). I haven't gotten into the GitHub code search beta yet...

If anyone is actually using the prelude types by name, though... 1. why are they doing that??? 2. they shouldn't be doing that 3. this is a breaking change and...

The compiler errors look like the `time` dependency in `tracing-appender` broke MSRV.

Hmm, okay, the number of results in that search is making me significantly less comfortable about changing this in a non-breaking release. I think it might be better off waiting...

@lilyball: Unfortunately, I don't believe re-exports can be deprecated: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/30827 It might be worth using the approach in your first comment, though, if that fixes the weird error messages. It...

@bryangarza it looks like a large number of merge conflicts need to be resolved.

> Since this is going to start introducing compile errors, I set the `tracing-attributes 0.2` milestone. That's correct, this should be merged to the `master` branch for v0.2, as it's...

Looks like some merge conflicts need to be resolved?

Thanks for the repro. If memory serves from the last time I looked into this, I think the way this code is currently structured makes it quite difficult to rewrite...