what dtl contains..

[Sean Kelly]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Robby wrote:
>> I'm currently porting my entire toolchain over to d for day to day. I 
>> can find references to dtl here and there without a download link, 
>> tango also mentions implementing some of the things I presume to be 
>> included within the dtl implementation.
>>
>> Is it the case that dtl has been folded into tango?
>>
>> Is there a new date on when tango going to be released (even in a 
>> beta/alpha state?)
>>
>> I just don't want to retool already implemented facilities if I can 
>> help it, cheers.
>>
>> Robby
> 
> AFAIK, Tango 0.95beta is still expected to be released at the end of the 
> month. DTL was based on an ancient version of D. There has not been a 
> deliberate attempt to put its functionality in Tango, but Tango probably 
> has most of it -- container classes and algorithms are included, for 
> example.

For what it's worth, Matthew has expressed interest to me in eventually 
reviving DTL, but he is currently busy with other projects.  I do think 
the design in DTL is quite promising, but it needs a good bit of work to 
be production quality (and probably just to work with D 1.0).  If or 
when this happens, I'll encourage Matthew to make DTL compatible with 
Tango.  But as Don has said, Tango has containers and algorithms 
already, so it shouldn't be a concern :-)


Sean