[phobos] std.gregorian

[Brad Roberts]

I don't think we should be different just because we can either.  The more basic
types that differ between Phobos and Tango the harder it is for the two
libraries to inter-operate.  While, there's already a huge gulf between them,
ideally there should be more commonality than there is.

Shrug,
Brad

On 6/9/2010 7:27 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> Brad Roberts wrote:
>> I thought the key authors had all signed off publically in the forums and
>> the general concensus from, well, everyone was that objecting in the first
>> place was stupid and the code should be shared.
>>
>> Has there been more back-channel chatter?
>>    
> 
> Some. Enough to know that although there wouldn't be legal issues, I don't think 
> we should take things just because we can. It's unnecessarily provocational.
> 
>> Now, if std.gregorian is technically better rather than just different,
>> then I have no objections going that direction anyway.
>>
>> My 2 cents,
>> Brad
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:03:23 -0700
>>> From: Walter Bright<walter at digitalmars.com>
>>> Reply-To: Discuss the phobos library for D<phobos at puremagic.com>
>>> To: Discuss the phobos library for D<phobos at puremagic.com>
>>> Subject: [phobos] std.gregorian
>>>
>>> Although I do not believe that SHOO's work on the date/time is legally
>>> infringing on Tango's time code, I feel there's been enough bad feeling about
>>> this and that we should not include Tango's time api design in Phobos.
>>>
>>> I apologize to SHOO for this. I know this is unfair to him.
>>>
>>> Andrei has given a start to std.gregorian, perhaps SHOO's implementation work
>>> can be transferred to this to help complete it?