Objections to phobos support?

Anonymous anon.anon at anon.anon.com
Sat Mar 15 13:59:04 PDT 2008


Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Frank Benoit wrote:
> > Bill Baxter schrieb:
> >> Just wondering if there would be any objections to making DWT work 
> >> with Phobos too, as Chris has managed to do with DFL.
> >>
> >> Assuming someone was willing to do the work, of course.
> >>
> >> Just checking.  :-)
> >>
> >> --bb
> > 
> > No objections in general.
> > If someone is intersted in doing this, please talk with me about your 
> > plans first.
> 
> My thought would be make a small "tangophob" library inside of dwt that 
> implements the necessary functionality. (Somehow that name just seems 
> way too appropriate :-))
> 
> Here's the current list of tango imports from a recent svn version of 
> dwt-win:
> 
> import tango.core.Array;
> import tango.core.Exception;
> import tango.core.Thread;
> import tango.core.Tuple;
> import tango.core.sync.Condition;
> import tango.core.sync.Mutex;
> import tango.io.Console;
> import tango.io.File;
> import tango.io.FileConduit;
> import tango.io.FileConst;
> import tango.io.FilePath;
> import tango.io.FileSystem;
> import tango.io.Stdout;
> import tango.io.TempFile;
> import tango.io.model.IConduit;
> import tango.io.protocol.Reader;
> import tango.stdc.stdlib;
> import tango.stdc.string;
> import tango.stdc.stringz;
> import tango.sys.Common;
> import tango.sys.Process;
> import tango.sys.SharedLib;
> import tango.sys.win32.CodePage;
> import tango.text.Text;
> import tango.text.Unicode;
> import tango.text.Util;
> import tango.text.convert.Float;
> import tango.text.convert.Format;
> import tango.text.convert.Integer;
> import tango.text.convert.Utf;
> import tango.time.Clock;
> import tango.util.Convert;
> import tango.util.log.Trace;
> 
> It does look like it would a fair amount of work, even considering that 
> only a few functions are used from some of those modules.
> 
> --bb

How about "TangoPhobia" as the name of the library as they are too scared to use Tango.
That is a joke but I still like the name.


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