Standard Library Concerns (Phobos / Tango)

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Feb 8 14:03:13 PST 2008


Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:17:38 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> There are currently several people working on Phobos, so it is far from 
>> abandoned. For example, last November saw a raft of major additions to it.
>>
>> What I see as the goal for Phobos/Tango is for there to be a compatible 
>> core, so that users can mix/match what they need from either library.
> 
> Excellent, and thank you.
> 
> What is the process for submitting changes now? 
> 

The people currently who can commit changes are:

Walter Bright
Brad Roberts
Andrei Alexandrescu
Sean Kelley
Janice Caron
Don Clugston

Anyone else can propose changes by submitting the patches to bugzilla. 
However, the bar is pretty high for that; submissions must contain the 
following:

1) unittests that prove it works
2) ddoc style documentation (for new functionality)
3) documentation must include sample of use (for new functionality)

If the patches don't include these, please still submit them, but 
they'll tend to get lower priority because someone else has to complete 
them. So, generally, the more thorough the patch is, the speedier it 
will be to get it in.

Also, patches which require a license that is different from the one in 
the module being patched cannot be accepted.



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