EnTT v3.14.x changelog preview

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Changelog

• core:

  • Avoid uninitialized length in all (corner) cases
  • Export more types as forward declarations (see fwd.hpp)
  • Lambda support for nth_argument
  • Class level new/delete support for any
  • Class level new/delete support for uninitialized_construct_using_allocator

• entity:

  • Avoid unchecked refresh loops on single type views
  • Refine empty registry check in the snapshot loader constructor
  • Stop groups from swapping observed types in their pools
  • Make sparse set sort_as function return an iterator past the last shared element
  • Update registry destroy function to use sparse set sort_as internally
  • Add operator bool to runtime views
  • Assert when emplacing invalid entities through a registry
  • Improved registry valid function
  • Decouple size and next identifier in the storage entity
  • Faster and memory-friendly storage entity create-with-hint function
  • Update the tombstone class to support zero-sized versions
  • Update entity traits the fully support zero-sized versions
  • Return the correct value from sparse set push functions
  • Drop sparse set scoped iterators (ie begin(N)/end(N))
  • Add element_type to the storage class as opposed to value_type
  • Make registry traits_type type member private
  • Make sparse set traits_type type member private
  • Make storage traits_type type member private
  • Avoid using weak ranges twice in the sigh_mixin class
  • Support comparisons between basic_handle<...> and null_t
  • Reliable valid function for empty basic_handle<...>s
  • Add pointer stable types support to the snapshot loader class
  • Branch-less sparse set sort and sort_as functions
  • Branch-less centralized swap-only mode check for views
  • Refine storage log messages to avoid ambiguity
  • Introduce the new basic_table and table classes

• graph:

  • Add an empty method to the flow class
  • Add an empty method to the adjacency_matrix class

• meta:

  • Add is_pointer meta traits
  • Updated meta type is_pointer function to make it faster and more reliable

• resource:

  • Add reset functions to resource class

Build system

• Avoid installing include/BUILD.bazel
• Updated IWYU version

Any other business

• Removed all previously deprecated methods
• Shared types in the test suite to avoid duplication
• Full review to reduce NOLINT directives as much as possible
• Refine linter configuration for the best
• Updated IWYU entt.imp as needed

Natvis support

All natvis files have been updated where necessary. New entries:

• Natvis view for basic_handle class
• Natvis view for meta_ctx class
• Natvis view for meta_type_descriptor class

Breaking changes

• Sparse set scoped iterators are no longer a thing, check the deletion policy and use the free list value as needed instead
• Registry traits_type is private, use entt_traits class and entity_type type member instead
• Sparse set traits_type is private, use entt_traits class and entity_type type member instead
• Storage traits_type is private, use component_traits class and value_type type member instead

Any other business

The documentation is up-to-date and the library is battle-tested with 100% coverage as usual.
I started a long term process to reduce the number of instantiations and also speed up the compilation.
This release contains some changes in this regard. Still a work in progress though.