Tango vs Phobos

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 8 21:32:38 PDT 2008


"Graham St Jack" <graham.stjack at internode.on.net> wrote in message 
news:g7j16v$tfs$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Quite a while ago there was talk of rearranging Tango and Phobos so that
> they share the same runtime, allowing BOTH libraries to be available in
> the same compiler installation.
>
> It looks to me as though D2 is stabilising, so now seems to be a good
> time to rationalise the two libraries in D2. I use D2 because I want the
> const stuff (and some other nice things too), but that locks me out of
> Tango and all the other libraries that use it, most notably GUI libraries.
>
> Is anything happening on this front?

Well D2 forked around the same time as the D conference last year, at which 
that conclusion was reached, and since then W has made very little progress 
on merging the Phobos and Tango runtime libraries, instead focusing on new 
D2 features.  *shrug* 





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