Can we all please stop overreacting?

Don nospam at nospam.com
Fri Apr 30 14:36:54 PDT 2010


Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "another lurker" <lurker at lurk.urk> wrote in message 
> news:hrfcfi$1eaq$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> == Quote from Don (nospam at nospam.com)'s article
>>> FeepingCreature wrote:
>>>   The quality-of-code metric seems to be universally acknowledged -
>>> after all, druntime itself is a fork of tango core.
>>> "We think you suck, so we'll base our new standard library on your work. 
>>> "
>>> You seem to be unaware of the history, and this may be leading you to
>>> misunderstand the situation.
>>> Sean Kelly wrote Ares as a replacement for Phobos. Tango began as a
>>> merger of Ares with Mango. "Tango core" is Ares. Druntime is also Ares.
>>> The primary author has never changed, and it's an unbroken continuation
>>> of development on a single code base. Ditto with tango.math, (which was
>>> written by me, originally in a project called 'mathextra').
>> Thank you Sean Kelly, Don and Steve Schveiguy for leaving Tango and coming 
>> to
>> Phobos. It means very much for everybody.
> 
> Don just said in the message you're replying to that they didn't leave 
> Tango. 

My most recent svn commit to Tango was only a month ago, so I still have 
a toe in both camps. But actually I've spent almost all of my time 
working on the compiler.
I have not yet decided on how I will respond to this situation.


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