druntime

[Sean Kelly]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> "Hoenir" wrote
>> Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
>>>> Yeah, officially. But there also is a D1 branch of druntime and there 
>>>> are even build instructions for 1.x.
>>>>
>>>> So why don't they port tango to that D1 version of druntime?
>>> What is the need?  The very purpose of having druntime in the first place 
>>> is to have Tango and Phobos share a common runtime.  If Tango is ported 
>>> to druntime, then Phobos is *still* not compatible because Phobos 1 does 
>>> not use it.
>>>
>> That's why one needs to rebuild phobos as the guideline states: 
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/druntime/wiki/GettingStarted
> 
> That guideline is for D2 phobos only.  D1 phobos would need to be rewritten 
> to use the new runtime, which as far as I know has not been done. (Sean, 
> there probably should be a note stating this, as the doc is slightly 
> ambiguous).

Yup.  The rewrite would essentially be Tangobos anyway.  I'll clarify 
the doc.


Sean