Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> "Jason House" wrote
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Druntime is there, and it's up to the Tango team now.
>>
>> As I understand it, the biggest fear of the Tango team is to make an
>> official D2 version and then have to chase after a moving standard.  If
>> an official port of Tango 0.99.7 was ported to work with dmd v2.023 how
>> willing would you be to ensure that the D2 Tango was functional prior to
>> new releases of dmd?  I don't necessarily mean that you personally hack
>> at Tango D2 for every release with breaking changes but rather that you
>> have people lined up to compile and run unit tests, and fix problems
>> prior to each release?
> 
> As far as I know, Walter has stated that he is willing to issue a quick
> fix
> release for easily fixed bugs that hurt Tango.  This already happens with
> the D1 releases, and I'm sure he'd extend that courtesy for D2 releases
> once
> Tango D2 is relatively stable.  I agree with Walter that the ball is fully
> in Tango's court.
> 
> D2 not being stable is probably the largest reason that most of the Tango
> devs aren't yet interested, but it doesn't stop some of us from trying :)
> Probably the largest hurdle right now is const-ifying all of Tango.  Most
> of the time, this doesn't just imply slapping a const or immutable label
> on something, but really rethinking how a particular module is implemented
> to
> cater to const properly.  Thankfully, however, const is now a stable
> target. Once pure/shared/unshared gets introduced, it will probably
> require more effort, but probably not as much as with const.

There is also the question of how SafeD should be catered for.

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