Tango for D2: All user modules ported

[Iain Buclaw]

On Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 04:59:33 UTC, SiegeLord wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Just wanted to put out an announcement with a progress report 
> on porting effort of Tango. For those that don't know what it 
> is, Tango is a framework library that used to be/is the de 
> facto standard library of D1.
>
> Through the heroic efforts by Igor Stepanov, the initial 
> porting was completed ahead of schedule. All the user modules 
> are now ported (save for tango.math.BigInt, which right now is 
> aliased to std.bigint... this might change in the future). All 
> unittests pass on Linux (using LDC2) and most do on Windows. 
> Additionally, again kudos to Igor, it compiles with -property 
> and -w flags for all of you style purists. Additionally, most 
> of the examples have been also ported.
>
> I have personally used Tango in few KLoC line D2 project and I 
> find it works just as well as it did in D1.
>
> This is naturally not the end, in the coming weeks/months you 
> can expect the following:
>
> -New Makefile based build system
> -Documentation creation
> -Ironing out of a few const related inelegancies
> -Revival of the support for MacOSX and FreeBSD
> -Revival of the GDC
> -Shared library creation
> -Dance lessons

Writing a new book on Dance lessons? :)