Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Bill Baxter wrote:

> I wonder if there might be some benefits to separating phobos and tango
> both out into a core lib containing only the barest essentials required
> to run D code (e.g. object and gc and not much else), and everything
> else.  Seems like it would be helpful in your case, at least.  It would
> seem somehow reassuring to me to be able to clearly see what's essential
> and what's optional.  But in the end the linker should discard whatever
> you don't use, so, from a practical standpoint, it's not so necessary.

This is what Tango already do. Tango's phobos.lib is just the language
essentials. The only external interface coming from there is for the GC,
threading and Object.

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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