Tango vs Phobos

[Nick B]

Sean

So what is the plan to transition Tango to D2.0 ?

Is the Tango team waiting for const to be removed from D2.0, or will 
Tango continue to use D1.0 forever, or is the team waiting to see the 
final form of D2.0 before deciding what to do ?

Nick B



Sean Kelly wrote:
> == Quote from Graham St Jack (graham.stjack at internode.on.net)'s article
>> 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.
> 
> This has been the case for ages via the Tango / Tangobos bundled release.
> 
>> 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?
> 
> I can update the Tango runtime once I find the time, but some of the coding
> approaches in the Tango user code aren't entirely compatible with D 2.0.
> This was the original inspiration for the "scoped const" proposal.  In short,
> it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect the Tango runtime to support D 2.0,
> but my understanding is that making the user code support D 2.0 would
> require a redesign in some cases, which is unlikely to occur.
> 
> 
> Sean