Tangobos positioning

[Bill Baxter]

Gregor Richards wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> --bb
> 
> I would be downright /thrilled/ if somebody took that page from me.
> 
>  - Gregor Richards

Ok. Right-o then.

In the mean time I wrote this here:
   http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/TangobosInfo

I have no idea if any of it is true, but at least it is what I *wish* 
were true.

Please check over it for factual errors if you have a sec.  Thanks.

--bb