D Conference Tango Phobos

[Sean Kelly]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
>> It's a replacement by necessity for the moment.  Tango contains its 
>> own runtime implementation and therefore can't simply be linked to an 
>> app alongside Phobos.  This is the real incentive for the merge.
> 
> Isn't it possible to merge the runtimes without merging the libraries ?

Yes and no.  The runtime contains a few user-visible features, most 
notably the Thread class.  So barring some complex attempt at providing 
support for multiple threading implementations, these classes would have 
to be shared between the libraries.  The obvious problem being where to 
put them.


Sean