Tango vs Phobos

[Sean Kelly]

Don wrote:
> Robert Fraser wrote:
>> Sean Kelly Wrote:
>>
>>> == Quote from Moritz Warning (moritzwarning at web.de)'s article
>>>> On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:29:45 +0400, Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>>>> The biggest issue is diffent Tango and Phobos runtime 
>>>>> implementation, I
>>>>> think.
>>>>> I didn't find any bugzilla reports on this subject, though. :(
>>>> I haven't taken a look at those runtime implementation differences,
>>>> but I wonder why there are no activities to solve this issue.
>>>> It makes it look like the participants are playing the golden throne
>>>> game...
>>> Unfortunately, for this to be resolved it requires cooperation from both
>>> sides.  It takes two to Tango, as they say (sorry, bad joke).
>>
>> I see the D community heading for a split. One side will be D1 
>> (hopefully a D 1.5) +tango, and the other side will be D2+phobos.  I 
>> don't think of this as a bad thing nessescarily, just two different 
>> directions.
> 
> I desperately hope not. I'm strongly active in both camps.
> I'm heartily sick of this situation. std.math and tango.math.Math/ 
> tango.math.IEEE are now a cut and paste of each other, barring a very 
> small number of lines. I want a single code base, but I'm not sure what 
> more I can do.

I don't particularly like the status quo either, but as the maintainer 
of the runtime there's little I can do for Phobos.  It's already been 
established that the Phobos user code will run on the Tango runtime with 
basically no modifications (the reverse isn't true), and D2 support 
simply requires time I don't have at the moment.  I'm not sure what else 
to do here.


Sean