Standard Library Concerns (Phobos / Tango)

[Robert Fraser]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> D1/Phobos1 needs to be taken out of Walters hands. He doesn't care about 
> it, even though it's the version of D with the largest userbase. If he 
> cared he would reply to this thread as well as the countless others 
> before it (on the same topic).

That reminds me of the whole "George Bush doesn't care about black 
people" thing.

I'm sure Walter cares a lot, and not only that, I think he reads most of 
the newsgroup posts. He replies when he has something interesting, and 
likely non-inflammatory to say.

DMD 1.x should remain *very* stable, so only bugfixes should appear 
there, which Walter has continually provided. As far as Phobos 1.x is 
concerned, I think some *NON-BREAKING* additions would be nice, but I 
generally think, besides bugfixes, stability is more important in that 
branch.

My requirement (in case anyone cares): If I write an application with D 
1.x/ Phobos 1.x today, I want it compiling without change in 2 years.