Tango vs Phobos

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Sean Kelly wrote:

> == Quote from Graham St Jack (graham.stjack at internode.on.net)'s article
>> Quite a while ago there was talk of rearranging Tango and Phobos so that
>> they share the same runtime, allowing BOTH libraries to be available in
>> the same compiler installation.
> 
> This has been the case for ages via the Tango / Tangobos bundled release.
> 
>> It looks to me as though D2 is stabilising, so now seems to be a good
>> time to rationalise the two libraries in D2. I use D2 because I want the
>> const stuff (and some other nice things too), but that locks me out of
>> Tango and all the other libraries that use it, most notably GUI
>> libraries. Is anything happening on this front?
> 
> I can update the Tango runtime once I find the time, but some of the
> coding approaches in the Tango user code aren't entirely compatible with D
> 2.0.
> This was the original inspiration for the "scoped const" proposal.  In
> short, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect the Tango runtime to support
> D 2.0, but my understanding is that making the user code support D 2.0
> would require a redesign in some cases, which is unlikely to occur.

There is a bugzilla entry (or two) that hinders porting Tango as it is. One
issue was fixed with the latest release (2.018).

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