The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jason House wrote:

> Walter Bright Wrote:
>  
>> Sean has emailed me an archive of the code that he owns the rights to. I
>>   believe this is probably sufficient to get compatibility, in which
>> case that is plenty good enough.
> 
> I'd hate for this thread to end with an apparent resolution only to flair
> up after another year of no progress.
> 
> What are the next steps?  I assume it'll take a few months to fully
> integrate the two code bases, but we should be able to know sooner than
> that if what Sean sent you want enough to integrate the runtimes or not.
> 
> I assume that the risk of legal taint will prevent you from doing a
> combined release of dmd v1.x, common runtime, phobos, and tango?  Even
> without that, I assume releasing Tango with the dmd compiler may hamper
> the overall release process.
> 
> Even so, once there's a common runtime, it'd be nice if we could have a
> combined releases of dmd+phobos+tango.  If a community member provided a
> combo release (probably following a Tango release), would you put it up as
> a downloadable item on the digital mars site?

There are other compilers than DMD, so I (as the current Tango release
manager) see no practical way to coordinate releases of Tango and DMD.
Tango bundles latest stable DMD when it is released, and if Tango is ever
bundled with DMD, I would assume that to work in the same manner.

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