Phobos/Tango Unification Plans

[Sean Kelly]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>> I believe Tango aims to continue being separately distributable from 
>> Phobos, so this isn't likely to happen.  Another option would be for 
>> the math package to live in a separate project that's bundled with 
>> both libraries, though I don't know how either team feels about the 
>> logistics of such an arrangement.
> 
> But will it be distributed as a normal library intended to be run on a 
> DMD install, or will it still be distributed as a modified DMD 
> installation, as it is now? If so, why? I thought you had to modify the 
> DMD installation only because the D runtime was not compatible.

Since Phobos will only use druntime with D 2.0, the current Tango 
distribution will most likly continue to include a runtime, be it 
Tango's original runtime or druntime.  It will likely be up to the 
community exactly how Tango is packaged going forward.


Sean