Tango vs Phobos

[Graham St Jack]

On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:32:38 -0400, Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

> "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*

Ok - well, I hope that will change soon.