D2 port of Tango

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-06 12:43, mta`chrono wrote:
>>> You will never satisfy both worlds (simplicity vs flexibility). Both
>>> Phobos and Tango have their place in the D community. It is unfortunate
>>> many people in the D community fails to see it. Also, it is unfortunate
>>> (but very easy to explain) that Tango project started as a complete
>>> implementation of the run-time library. We debate this for years on
>>> irc://
>>> irc.freenode.org/d and it never ends.
>
> Tango d2 should give up it's own runtime and consequently use druntime,
> even though this is an immense change that nearly affects everything to
> change.
>
> Nobody will be able to maintain two runtime's at the same time. You'll
> have to be aware of so many stuff. Even if you provide a method that the
> user can choose between tango's runtime and druntime, you will have to
> mess around with duplicate declarations etc. In one module you're using
> tango's struct sockaddr declaration and in the other you'll try to pass
> it to a functions that requires druntime's struct sockaddr. the compiler
> will complain that you cannot pass sockaddr where sockaddr is required.
>
> So please give up tango's runtime and make a consequent use of druntime.
> If someone want's to customize the behavoir of the gc for example than
> he should use druntime's possibilities to change it.

As far as I know, the D2 port of Tango uses druntime.

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/Jacob Carlborg