Two standard libraries?

[Bill Baxter]

TomD wrote:
> Steve Teale Wrote:
> 
> [...]
>> Then let's persist with this bitching until we get it sorted.
>> Someone else in the thread has already noted that Walter has too
>> much on his back already.  Somehow we need to get these things
>> unified, so it's safe to write a library.  My version of Phobos is
>> patched, as I suspect are many, but as you say there's no way of
>> checking these changes in.
>> 
>> Walter, you are eventually going to have to delegate this
>> somewhere!
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
> I did not mean to bitch. From what I understand, Walter wants to
> design and write the perfect language and compiler. I like it, and it
> was love on first sight:-) But he needs to realize that even his day
> only has 36 hours and let not-that-brilliant programmers help with
> the runtime. Putting Phobos under svn might ease the task.

Just putting it under svn isn't enough.  It needs to have someone in 
charge of it.  To manage incoming patches.  To think about overall 
organization.  And ideally to work on things like a good set of 
templated containers.  Hmm... kind of exactly like what those Tango guys 
are doing.

--bb