Brief report about the Tango Conference 2008 in Torun

[Jason House]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> Alexander Pánek wrote:
> > Sean Kelly wrote:
> >> Alexander Panek wrote:
> >>> bearophile wrote:
> >>>> From:
> >>>
> >>>>> regarding a common runtime for Phobos and Tango,<
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you give a little summary of this?
> >>>
> >>> Well, there’s a project on dsource (druntime: 
> >>> http://dsource.org/projects/druntime) which is supposed to hold that 
> >>> common runtime.
> >>
> >> I just thought I'd mention that if anyone wants to play with
> >> this, the runtime is fully functional and there are versions
> >> available for both D 1.0 and D 2.0 (in a branch and trunk,
> >> respectively).  Assuming everything works out however, I
> >> expect that only Phobos for D 2.0 will actually use the
> >> common runtime, since D 1.0 is in maintenance mode now.
> > 
> > Ah, good to know. What are the differences between druntime and Tango’s 
> > runtime? What about the features Tango has but Phobos doesn’t?
> 
> The location of things have changed and certain bits have been tightened 
> up a bit compared to Tango, but the functionality should be identical to 
> Tango's runtime.  With that in mind, if you want to try it out, build 
> druntime and replace tango-base-dmd.lib with druntime-dmd.lib, get rid 
> of the .di files in tango/core that are generated by the lib build 
> process, and use the top-level memory, thread, etc, modules in their place.
> 
> The project is really just a proof of concept at this point.  I've got a 
> version of Phobos for D 2.0 working on top of druntime with no problems, 
> for example, but there is no official support yet for druntime from 
> Phobos or Tango.
> 
> In short, druntime works just fine, but to actually use it right now 
> you're pretty much on your own.  I'll be happy to answer any questions 
> regarding setup, but don't have any plans yet for installation scripts, 
> packaging, etc.
> 
> By the way, DMD is the only supported compiler at the moment.  I'll add 
> support for the others later if the project actually takes off.
> 
> 
> Sean

What has been done to coordinate with Walter and/or the Phobos development team? Does the license match Walter's requirement? Are there any known reasons why D2 would not want to adopt this runtime?