So, what happened?

[Walter Bright]

Paul wrote:
> I've hesitated to report because I was only very peripherally
> involved in the discussions and it's not an area I know much about,
> but as I understand it the point of agreement was to make the two
> libraries compatible, so that Tango would work like "just another
> library".  This implies that the Phobos and Tango would share a
> common runtime library, which was the focus of Sean Kelly's talk at
> the conference. There are also a few incompatibilities (toString and
> toUTF8; errors and exceptions) that need to be sorted out.
> 
> The bottom line (if I've got it right) is that both Tango and Phobos
> will continue but it will no longer be an either/or situation for
> developers.


That's my understanding of what transpired. Myself and the Tango team 
both agree that the current situation is not good, and to fix it we need 
to remove the incompatibilities between the two, and we intend to do so.