Phobos (Re: Today the Hobbyist, Tommorow, The World!)

[Sean Kelly]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Kyle Furlong wrote:
> 
>>> To this end, I propose the formation of an organization/committee, 
>>> headed by Walter, to guide the process of creating this polished 
>>> presence.
>>>
>>> Some things which this committee should consider are:
>>>
>>> 1. Unified std library which is 100% covered and stable.
>>>
>>> Aside: I am strongly biased to creating this library out of Ares + 
>>> Mango. No offense Walter, but Sean and Kris' code is higher quality 
>>> at this point.
>>
>> That's fine with me.
> 
> So, does this now mean that Phobos, GPhobos, and Ares should be merged ?
> 
> As in, splitting the Phobos library up - into the 3 Ares subcomponents:
> * the runtime library (phobos.lib)
> **  the DMD compiler runtime (dmdrt.lib)
> **  the DMD garbage collector (dmdgc.lib)
> **  the standard library (ares.lib)

I don't think they should be merged, as they all serve the same purpose. 
  GPhobos is a clone of Phobos but with GDC support added, while Ares is 
essentially Phobos refactored into three sub-libraries with "std" 
replaced by new code.

> I guess we have a few items to sort out then, like: linux/Unix/Posix,
> and what the module hierarchy should look like and other similar things.
> (but better support for posix and win32 headers would be a good change)
> 
> Or did you just mean it as in "it's OK that theirs is higher quality" ?

I think this is what Walter meant.  And frankly, I think Ares/Mango/etc 
still have a ways to go yet they are a feature complete replacement for 
Phobos.  For now, I think the status quo makes more sense.


Sean