Tango vs Phobos

[Denis Koroskin]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:25:29 +0400, Lars Ivar Igesund  
<larsivar at igesund.net> wrote:

> Nick B wrote:
>
>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>> dsimcha wrote:
>>>
>>>> What about, at least initially, releasing a subset of Tango for D2 and
>>>> gradually
>>>> porting more as issues are fixed?  For example, just for now, just
>>>> release whatever subset of Tango is high-level enough to run on top of
>>>> the D2 Phobos runtime and isn't plagued too severely by const issues,
>>>> even if it doesn't mesh
>>>> perfectly, i.e. requires some casting, etc. on the part of client  
>>>> code.
>>>
>>> There isn't really a subset of Tango that can run on top of any Phobos
>>> runtime. The Tango runtime probably works fine with D2 without any  
>>> major
>>> changes, it is the user library that is problematic. The work on the
>>> porting has begun in a branch in Tango's svn repository, but cannot be
>>> continued properly until certain issues are fixed.
>>>
>>>> I'm not really sure, but I would guess that this would leave a
>>>> reasonably large subset with plenty of useful things.
>>>>
>>>> To be honest, I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I thought I would
>>>> throw it
>>>> out there as a suggestion.  Tango is a huge library with tons of nice
>>>> stuff, and it seems like a shame that D2 users can't use any of it if
>>>> only parts of it are broken.
>>>
>>> It is typically the behaviour of certain core parts (text manipulation,
>>> io) that doesn't work properly, and so most of the other parts of Tango
>>> won't work either. Right now it isn't really compilable either if I
>>> understand correctly. But we got people on it! :)
>>>
>>> Really, it would be swell if Tango could work with D2, but currently D2
>>> is not usable for a library like Tango.
>>>
>> So what is the plan to resolve these creative differences ?
>
> Bugzilla entries exists, it is up to Walter to decide the way forward.
>

The biggest issue is diffent Tango and Phobos runtime implementation, I  
think.
I didn't find any bugzilla reports on this subject, though. :(