Tango for D2: All user modules ported

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 01-02-2012 05:59, SiegeLord wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Just wanted to put out an announcement with a progress report on porting effort of Tango. For those that don't know what it is, Tango is a framework library that used to be/is the de facto standard library of D1.
>
> Through the heroic efforts by Igor Stepanov, the initial porting was completed ahead of schedule. All the user modules are now ported (save for tango.math.BigInt, which right now is aliased to std.bigint... this might change in the future). All unittests pass on Linux (using LDC2) and most do on Windows. Additionally, again kudos to Igor, it compiles with -property and -w flags for all of you style purists. Additionally, most of the examples have been also ported.
>
> I have personally used Tango in few KLoC line D2 project and I find it works just as well as it did in D1.
>
> This is naturally not the end, in the coming weeks/months you can expect the following:
>
> -New Makefile based build system
> -Documentation creation
> -Ironing out of a few const related inelegancies
> -Revival of the support for MacOSX and FreeBSD
> -Revival of the GDC
> -Shared library creation
> -Dance lessons
>
> You can download the latest version of it here:
>
> https://github.com/SiegeLord/Tango-D2
>
> FAQ
>
> Does it work alongside Phobos/does it use druntime?
>
> Yes and yes.
>
> Why are you doing this?
>
> Because I want to.
>
>
> That's all,
>
> -SiegeLord

Amazing work folks!

I would recommend Waf for your build system, but the downside is that it 
doesn't support Windows... (This could probably be fixed with some 
trivial patches, though...)

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- Alex