Standard Library Concerns (Phobos / Tango)

Don Clugston dac at nospam.com.au
Fri Feb 8 06:26:27 PST 2008


Tim Burrell wrote:
> Michel Fortin wrote:
>> Personally, I'd prefer to see Phobos kept as the standard library and 
>> improved technically to the level Tango is at now.
> 
> The problem is, you can't keep Phobos and have it improved technically.
>  It's just not going to happen, that's the whole reason this thread was
> started!
> 
> Walter isn't doing his job when it comes to maintaining Phobos, and he
> isn't opening it up to the contributors who are willing to help!

That isn't true. Phobos is now on dsource, and several of us have been given 
commit access to it. Unfortunately the procedure for commiting changes isn't 
quite clear yet.
I'm working on making the mathematics of Phobos and Tango compatible; hopefully 
we'll end up with a single code base.

> 
> Also, there's _already_ an existing compatibility layer for Tango that
> allows you to use the Phobos API with the quality of Tango.
> 
> I think we'd all prefer to see Phobos improved technically, but it's
> just not happening.  And fact is, we have a dedicated team who have put
> together a quality library, that has a full implementation of Phobos
> built on top of it (which is also more efficient than Phobos).
> 
> That being said, most people do prefer the Tango API over Phobos, so if
> the majority of the D community is saying "let's do this!", and given
> that there's really no reason not to (ie people who like Phobos can
> still use Phobos), AND given that Walter has proven he's not interested
> in doing a proper job at maintaining Phobos, it just doesn't make sense
> to keep it around.
> 
> Tim.



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