Phango

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> "Janice Caron" wrote
>> I've started to like Tango, now that I've got bits of it working with 
>> Phobos :-)
>>
>> With a bit of kludging, I've persuaded all of the examples in the
>> "console" and "text" directories to build with Phobos using DMD 2.007.
>> Of the examples files, only "properties.d" needed to be tweaked
>> slightly - and that was just to replace "char[]" with "string".
>>
> 
> Just an FYI, some of us are working on a D 2.x compatible version of Tango.
> 
> Basically the hard part is adding const.
> 
> It's not release-ready yet, but I'm hoping once Walter has fixed const, we 
> should be able to finish the port.
> 
> Of course, it does not use Phobos... But hopefully that problem will be 
> solved soon also.

The const stuff is changing significantly (for the much better, I hope), 
so be prepared to do another pass over it if you are adapting it to 
const. I've found the necessary changes to the source to be simple to do 
(and they are flagged by the compiler), so it shouldn't be a problem.