auto merge of #7629 : thestinger/rust/rope, r=graydon

It's broken/unmaintained and needs to be rewritten to avoid managed
pointers and needless copies. A full rewrite is necessary and the API
will need to be redone so it's not worth keeping this around (#7628).

Closes #2236, #2744

src/libextra/extra.rs

@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ pub mod deque;
 pub mod fun_treemap;
 pub mod list;
 pub mod priority_queue;
-pub mod rope;
 pub mod smallintmap;
 
 pub mod sort;

src/libstd/str.rs

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@
  *
  * Strings are a packed UTF-8 representation of text, stored as null
  * terminated buffers of u8 bytes.  Strings should be indexed in bytes,
- * for efficiency, but UTF-8 unsafe operations should be avoided.  For
- * some heavy-duty uses, try extra::rope.
+ * for efficiency, but UTF-8 unsafe operations should be avoided.
  */
 
 use at_vec;