phobos / tango / ares

[Bill Baxter]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
> 
>> Which one to use is hard to say at this point. I've been trying out
>> Tango since its release and I like it but I sometimes miss some parts of
>> Phobos. Whether this is because Phobos is just more familiar to me or
>> actually better is hard to say...
> 
> Note that what you miss that you feel you have in Phobos, is very much part
> of the feedback we would like.
> 

I'm having trouble understanding first why Tango had to be made mutually 
exclusive to Phobos (is it just changes to object.d? were those really 
necessary?)  and if object.d differences are the only reason, then I 
still don't really get why most Phobos code can't still be imported as 
is or with trivial changes.  For example, phobos' std.path doesn't seem 
to have any direct dependencies on the gc API or on a particular version 
of object.d.  What's the issue?

--bb