Tango vs Phobos

[Bill Baxter]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Graham St Jack
<graham.stjack at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 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.

Doesn't sound like it will, now with "SafeD" and the "shared" variable
ideas apparently on the to-do list.
There's always something big, always just beyond the horizon.

--bb