Two "standard" libraries???

[Derek Parnell]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:57:22 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>  >
>> But I wonder how much different it would be if people didn't regard 
>> Tango as what it isn't.  I'm not sure if this can be said without 
>> implying disrespect to the developer(s) of Tango, but for those who want 
>> _one_ standard library, there's Phobos, which is the _real_ standard 
>> library, just as it was before Tango was conceived.
> 
> Yup.  And to be frank, I don't think any member of the Tango team has 
> ever claimed that Tango is a "standard library."  However, this is 
> really a semantic issue because the compatibility problem does exist, so 
> for better or worse, it's not really possible to use Tango and Phobos 
> together in the same app at the moment.  If you'll forgive my hubris, I 
> /do/ believe the Tango runtime is better than the Phobos runtime, but 
> this basically means that I think it would be foolish to just toss out 
> the Tango runtime and turn Tango into another user-level library.  And 
> that's why we are where we are today :-)

That is why I mentioned "consideration for each other". Both Walter and the
Tango crew will need to give ground and co-operate to arrive at a good
outcome for us innocent bystanders.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell