Tango 0.99.8 Sean released

[Jacob Carlborg]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Dear D community 
> 
> A new version of Tango is now available for download. The release is named 
> after Sean Kelly for his past work on the Tango runtime and now druntime. 
> The release have several new features, and fairly major changes to tie the 
> IO even closer together. To make the transition easier, the previous 
> incarnation is still available for this release.
>  
> This has been a much delayed release compared to the earlier Tango releases, 
> but time has been spent fairly well, covering 301 closed tickets and more 
> than 600 commits. 
> 
>  * Final refinement of the IO 
>  * JSON parser/builder 
>  * FTP adapter for the VFS by Lester L. Martin II 
>  * Serial port support by Robin Kreis 
>  * Inter-thread communication by Steven Schveighoffer 
>  * /dev/null support by Fawzi Mohamed 
>  * Random framework by same Fawzi 
>  * BigInt by Don Clugston 
>  * Updated for DMD 1.041, including Mac support 
>  * Support for LDC 
>  * OpenSolaris support by BlueZeniX 
>  * New API docs courtesy of Aziz and Moritz 
>  * More containers such as HashFile 
>  
> For a complete list of changes please see the changelog. We welcome all 
> feedback and testing. 
> 
> We're in the process of updating to new API docs as mentioned above, now 
> generated by dil. You can see the docs for 0.99.8 at 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/0.99.8 or later download them 
> from via the download pages.
> 
> We are always looking for new participants, so feel free to contact us via 
> the page linked below. In particular, we are looking for someone to help 
> drive the online presence via our Trac pages. 
> 
> The Tango homepage can be found at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango 
> 
> Downloads: 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Download 
> 
> See http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/TopicInstallTango for more 
> detailed installation instructions for your system. 
> 
> Contact information at http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Contact 
>  
> ------
> 
> Signed, 
> 
> The Tango Team
> 

That's great.

A few thoughts on the new documentation:

The new dil generated documentation is a little hard to read. There is 
no space after the documentation of an item and the text item. I also 
liked the old font better than the new. Now when the documentation for 
object.di is actually generated we could perhaps get some documentations 
for it.

Other from that I really like the new documentation.