standardization of D

[Derek Parnell]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:24:51 -0400, Ameer Armaly wrote:

> 2. We have two competing standard libraries; ...

Do we? I agree we have two competing libraries in as much as they nominally
try to cover the same problem space (with overlapping areas), but is Tango
really the "standard"? That is to say, are the Tango developers attempting
to have it shipped with *every* D compiler? I'm sure that they would like
it to be, but I don't think that they are trying for that.

To me, Phobos is the standard library because it is shipped as a matter of
course (plus is hardcoded into DMD). This is not to say that it is a good
library; I think it really needs *lots* of improvement, but it is the one
that you get when you get a D compiler.

Now maybe if Walter endorsed Tango and also packaged it with DMD we could
say we had competing standards, but ...

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