Phobos is now on dsource

[Kris]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at f4.ca> wrote in message 
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> Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>> Alexander Panek wrote:
>>
>>>> I honestly hope Phobos will remain what it is - a simple, core
>>>> library, and I hope it will not "evolve" into a huge framework of
>>>> JAVA API, or .NET 2 size.
>>> I'm not sure what the cause of this "fear" is?
>>
>> A large standard library bulks up the language (where by "language" I
>> mean the actual programming language plus its standard library
>> facilities). Such bulk is undesirable in places where it isn't needed,
>> such as embedded systems or other small scale environments. Since D
>> wants to be a systems programming language a huge, expansive *standard*
>> library seems incompatible with that positioning. At least it does to me.
>
> Ironically, this is exactly who Tango was designed the way it is.  The 
> runtime can be distributed entirely separate from the user code, and the 
> user code is rarely inter-dependent either.  In my opinion, this grants 
> the best of both worlds.  Embedded programmers can toss all the code they 
> don't need or don't want to port, but it's still available to those with 
> more modest demands.

Yes indeed. It was one of the very early decisions, and guided lots of 
subsequent discussion and/or partitioning of Tango functionality :)