why a part of D community do not want go to D2 ?

Don nospam at nospam.com
Tue Nov 9 14:04:52 PST 2010


Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2010-11-09 17:43, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I wouldn't be surprised if Tango chose to turn away from compatibility
>> for the second time (be it theoretical compatibility for now since there
>> is no Tango for D2). The technical reasons are dwindling and became
>> tenuous to argue for, but however weak they are, they could be used to
>> promote a political motivation: a Tango/D2 offering would come again as
>> an either-or proposition for a standard library that precludes usage of
>> Tango2 and Phobos2 together. In my opinion that would be an extremely
>> dangerous gambit.
> 
> Clearly we don't see this in the same way. I see it like this, because 
> Tango was first it's druntime that chose to turn away from compatibility.

Sorry, that is completely false. druntime was created specifically to 
allow Phobos and Tango to co-exist. At the time, almost all of the code 
in druntime was written by Sean, and he was leading the Tango runtime 
development. The expectation was that Tango would continue to use Sean's 
runtime, it was just in a separate project.

>>> For this to work the Tango team and the druntime
>>> contributors/maintainers have collaborate and work together on a 
>>> runtime.
>>
>> That runtime is druntime. If there is no understanding of that at Tango,
>> that is suicide.
> 
> Apparently not, since Sean ripped out all that wasn't necessary for 
> Phobos but is necessary for Tango. Why are you blaming everything on 
> Tango all the time?

Sean took all the code he had written. The other minor contributors did 
not yet give permission for their code to be used, so of course it could 
not be included.




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