phobos is failure

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 7 06:47:36 PDT 2010


On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:51:33 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> IMHO, the primary reason for Tango has been eroding (at least for D2).  
> As I
> always saw it, the whole point of Tango was that Phobos was basically
> early-alpha-level with practically no features, and no one actively  
> working
> on it (just a little bit of occasional attention from Walter). In those
> days, Tango mage *perfect* sense. But Phobos2 has come such a long way,  
> and
> has the added bonus of not leaving you lost in epic package/class
> hierarchies. I don't mean to bash Tango, I used it and loved it for a  
> long
> time. I'm just not sure it's really needed on D2.

As a library, I loved and used Tango for quite a while.  It's still a very  
good library.  I don't think the reasons it won't be ported are technical.

-Steve


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