Tango vs Phobos

[Jason House]

Nick B Wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> > dsimcha wrote:
> > 
> >> What about, at least initially, releasing a subset of Tango for D2 and
> >> gradually
> >> porting more as issues are fixed?  For example, just for now, just release
> >> whatever subset of Tango is high-level enough to run on top of the D2
> >> Phobos runtime and isn't plagued too severely by const issues, even if it
> >> doesn't mesh
> >> perfectly, i.e. requires some casting, etc. on the part of client code. 
> > 
> > There isn't really a subset of Tango that can run on top of any Phobos
> > runtime. The Tango runtime probably works fine with D2 without any major
> > changes, it is the user library that is problematic. The work on the
> > porting has begun in a branch in Tango's svn repository, but cannot be
> > continued properly until certain issues are fixed.
> > 
> >> I'm not really sure, but I would guess that this would leave a reasonably
> >> large subset with plenty of useful things.
> >>
> >> To be honest, I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I thought I would
> >> throw it
> >> out there as a suggestion.  Tango is a huge library with tons of nice
> >> stuff, and it seems like a shame that D2 users can't use any of it if only
> >> parts of it are broken.
> > 
> > It is typically the behaviour of certain core parts (text manipulation, io)
> > that doesn't work properly, and so most of the other parts of Tango won't
> > work either. Right now it isn't really compilable either if I understand
> > correctly. But we got people on it! :)
> > 
> > Really, it would be swell if Tango could work with D2, but currently D2 is
> > not usable for a library like Tango.
> > 
> So what is the plan to resolve these creative differences ?
> 
> When is the Tango team and Walter going to get in the same room to 
> thrash though these differences, because if these issues are not 
> resolved, then the split will get wider, and wider.  Finally, both 
> communities will go their separate ways, and the community (both D and 
> Tango) will burn and die.

I recognize a number of core Tango folks participating in this thread. I find it very telling that Walter has not found this thread sufficiently interesting to reply.