DMD 1.036 and 2.020 releases

Sergey Gromov snake.scaly at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 07:35:45 PDT 2008


Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:56:30 +0200,
Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> In any case, a hierarchy of the type
> 
> common/
>   core/
>   sys/
>   stdc/
> 
> should be highly considered. This would allow a namespace for functionality
> that is truly common, not only the runtime, but math and eventually other
> functionality. In addition it is naive to believe that just because
> druntime is meant to be a common runtime, that it will be the only runtime
> in the long run.

There is no 'truly common' functionality beyond the absolutely necessary 
core runtime.  The fact that Phobos and Tango share some code only means 
that such code is ought to be in any stand-alone, general-purpose 
library.  Not that it must be built-in.


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