Tango vs Phobos

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Denis Koroskin wrote:

> 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. :(

Oh, I actually misinterpreted Nick's meaning. Whether it is an issue or not,
depends on the POV. Doing anything with it, is in Walter's ballpark.

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