Tangobos positioning

[Kris]

"Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
news:fnimhu$cs6$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Kris wrote:
>> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
>> news:fniheh$1a0$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> It's great that the Tango team is bundling Tangobos with Tango these 
>>> days. But the Tangobos page on dsource[1] still basically says it's a 
>>> band-aid only intended to help ease the transition from Phobos to Tango. 
>>> It takes the tone that Phobos is crap and you're going to "change sides" 
>>> once you get your superior library working.
>>
>> Then perhaps you could help to resolve that? There's always room for 
>> another willing pair of hands, and the doc is in a Wiki so that anyone 
>> and everyone can easily participate ;)
>>
>>> Also, just a marketing thing, but I would suggest that the wording on 
>>> the Tangobos site be changed from emphasizing "compatibility layer" to 
>>> "a port of Phobos".  It mentions in passing that it is basically a port, 
>>> but I would make that the primary description.  The reason I think the 
>>> "compatibility layer" description is bad is because "layer" implies slow 
>>> and bug-prone.   Slow because it implies theres some extra layer of 
>>> indirection there translating Phobos calls into Tango calls (which there 
>>> isn't for 99% of it IIUC), and bug prone because trying to emulate API Y 
>>> using API X usually reveals a number of "impedance mismatches" in 
>>> practice.  It's a port of Phobos.  Or you could say a copy of Phobos 
>>> with minor adjustments to make the code work with Tango.  "compatibility 
>>> layer" sounds bloated.
>>
>> Seems like a good approach. Would you mind fixing the Wiki page, please? 
>> That would be a big help
>
> Sure, if it is ok for me to do so.  It's still basically Gregor's page 
> though, isn't it?  You sure it's ok to rewrite it?


hehe ... yeah, he may or may not appreciate that :)

Here's a dedicated page in the Tango Wiki instead: 
http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/TangobosInfo

I understand you need to have a dsource user-id to access the wiki. If you 
can hook up on the irc channels, it might be simpler to set things up (we 
need to white-list your id, for example).