Tango 0.99.8 Sean released

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Dear D community
>> 
>> A new version of Tango is now available for download. The release is
>> named after Sean Kelly for his past work on the Tango runtime and now
>> druntime. The release have several new features, and fairly major changes
>> to tie the IO even closer together. To make the transition easier, the
>> previous incarnation is still available for this release.
>>  
>> This has been a much delayed release compared to the earlier Tango
>> releases, but time has been spent fairly well, covering 301 closed
>> tickets and more than 600 commits.
>> 
>>  * Final refinement of the IO
>>  * JSON parser/builder
>>  * FTP adapter for the VFS by Lester L. Martin II
>>  * Serial port support by Robin Kreis
>>  * Inter-thread communication by Steven Schveighoffer
>>  * /dev/null support by Fawzi Mohamed
>>  * Random framework by same Fawzi
>>  * BigInt by Don Clugston
>>  * Updated for DMD 1.041, including Mac support
>>  * Support for LDC
>>  * OpenSolaris support by BlueZeniX
>>  * New API docs courtesy of Aziz and Moritz
>>  * More containers such as HashFile
>>  
>> For a complete list of changes please see the changelog. We welcome all
>> feedback and testing.
>> 
>> We're in the process of updating to new API docs as mentioned above, now
>> generated by dil. You can see the docs for 0.99.8 at
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/0.99.8 or later download them
>> from via the download pages.
>> 
>> We are always looking for new participants, so feel free to contact us
>> via the page linked below. In particular, we are looking for someone to
>> help drive the online presence via our Trac pages.
>> 
>> The Tango homepage can be found at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango
>> 
>> Downloads:
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Download
>> 
>> See http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/TopicInstallTango for more
>> detailed installation instructions for your system.
>> 
>> Contact information at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Contact
>>  
>> ------
>> 
>> Signed,
>> 
>> The Tango Team
>> 
> 
> That's great.
> 
> A few thoughts on the new documentation:
> 
> The new dil generated documentation is a little hard to read. There is
> no space after the documentation of an item and the text item. I also
> liked the old font better than the new. Now when the documentation for
> object.di is actually generated we could perhaps get some documentations
> for it.

The CSS and DDoc macro's are in SVN, I think most of what you mention can be 
fixed via that so feel free to suggest patches. A note on fonts; I think 
none are currently specified meaning that what you see are the browswer 
defaults.

> Other from that I really like the new documentation.

Me too :)

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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