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

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-15 16:22, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Tango is distributed under an incompatible license. A license that unfortunately can't be changed
> because many of the Tango authors are MIA.

It does not need to be changed. It just needs to be included in the 
distribution of DMD. Nothing that uses DMD or Phobos will be affected. 
Well, that's actually only necessary if the source code of Orbit itself 
is included with DMD. Apparently the source code for RDMD is not included.

> There's nothing political involved. And if the dependency is
> just on a JSON module, that's easy to resolve.

The large dependencies it has are: XML, net, ZIP and argument parsing. 
Then there are some utility functions, but they are the least of the 
problem.

> We have a new std.json module in the queue anyway, don't we?

That's another problem. In Tango there is working code right now, not 
possibly some time in the future.

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/Jacob Carlborg