What's missing from Phobos for Orbit (package manager)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-15 14:35, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Allow me to qualify this.
>
> Tango is a fine library, and it's great that the whole issue of Tango
> vs. Phobos has been settled by allowing the two to coexist in the same app.
>
> That being said, when discussing things to be added to the official
> canon, there are two aspects to be thought of. First, there's the whole
> licensing issue - if we start distributing code with heterogeneous
> licenses we create only headaches for our users. Second, it's about the
> story we put forward: if the standard library offers some functionality
> but its own satellite packages redo it from scratch with slightly
> different names, that's just not good.

The different names are the minor issues. It's rather the XML, zip, net 
and argument parsing modules that is the problem.

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/Jacob Carlborg