add experimental async/await support. (#582)

This patch adds experimental async/await support to Tokio. It does this
by adding feature flags to existing libs only where necessary in order
to add nightly specific code (mostly `Unpin` implementations). It then
provides a new crate: `tokio-async-await` which is a shim layer on top
of `tokio`.

The `tokio-async-await` crate is expected to look exactly like `tokio`
does, but with async / await support. This strategy reduces the amount
of cfg guarding in the main libraries.

This patch also adds `tokio-channel`, which is copied from futures-rs
0.1 and adds the necessary `Unpin` implementations. In general, futures
0.1 is mostly unmaintained, so it will make sense for Tokio to take over
maintainership of key components regardless of async / await support.
This commit is contained in:
Carl Lerche
2018-08-27 12:24:51 -07:00
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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ keywords = ["io", "async", "non-blocking", "futures"]
members = [
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"tokio-channel",
"tokio-codec",
"tokio-current-thread",
"tokio-executor",