Standard Library Concerns (Phobos / Tango)

[Kris]

Alexander Panek Wrote:

> Sjoerd van Leent wrote:
> > To be frank, I don't see the problem in having two standard libraries. However, their purpose can be quite different.
> 
> To be frank, I don't see how the purpose is different. :)
> 
> > The Phobos library to me appears to be minimalist and ideal for those who need a small runtime library, such as example drivers, embedded systems, thin clients, etc.
> 
> This is not entirely true. The Tango core is very well decoupled from 
> the rest of the library, rendering it very useful for exactly those things.
> 
> > The Tango library on the other hand appears to be much more of a library for bigger applications, and provides a lot of practical functionality which todays applications need, such as webservers, database I/O, etc.
> 
> Tango only provides the tools to create such applications. It does not, 
> however, include a web server or database bindings/mappers. That's a 
> seperate project called DDBI on DSource (http://dsource.org/projects/ddbi/).


aye ... and those webserver packages (along with various other server-related services) reside in the Mango project on dsource. They're built upon Tango, but not shipped as part of it.