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Don nospam at nospam.com
Sat Jan 17 11:17:41 PST 2009


Stewart Gordon wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
> <snip>
>> 2)  You don't have enough information to go on to make that change, 
>> unless you have dicussed this with Walter.  Maybe he doesn't want to 
>> recognize the old DWT as "standard" anymore, if it isn't actively 
>> developed.  Maybe neither library is "standard".
> <snip>
> 
> Maybe you're right.  But if Walter hasn't stripped Phobos DWT of its 
> 'standard' title, I think technically it still applies.  But it might be 
> more practical to consider neither to be.

I don't think that it was _ever_ accepted as "the standard library". 
It's more that it was a proposed standard, and it died almost 
immediately after being proposed for standardisation.

> 
> I guess what's really needed is for both DWTs to be maintained in 
> parallel.  Or maybe merge into one DWT that's versioned for the two. Who 
> has experience of writing dual-mode libraries like this?  (SDWF is 
> dual-mode for D1 and D2; I'm guessing it could further be made 
> triple-mode for Tango as well.  Even quadruple-mode once we have a Tango 
> for D2.  Anyone fancy trying it?)
> 
> Stewart.



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