The Death of D. (Was Tango vs Phobos)

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:g82ua5$1l6d$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> What specifically I'd like from the Tango team is explicit permission 
>>> for the Phobos team to go over the Tango code and be able to copy/use 
>>> whatever portions of it are necessary to get the two libraries to have a 
>>> compatible core, and to relicense those parts under the corresponding 
>>> Phobos license.
>>
>> I think this is arguably a reasonable first step, but working towards a 
>> compatible core still means two separate cores, which means not being 
>> able to use Tango and Phobos together in the same app.  So I'll admit to 
>> not completely understanding the reasoning behind this approach, but it's 
>> the only option so I'm happy to comply.  Frankly, I don't want to be 
>> stuck maintaining the Tango runtime from now until doomsday anyway :-)
>
> If the cores are compatible at the API level, then one should be able to 
> mix and match Tango/Phobos user level modules.

Why one would want to do that is beyond me.

If/when this licensing bullshit ever gets sorted, we still have the problem 
of two standard libraries designed with different goals and duplicate 
functionality.  What then?  How is that a solution?  If it takes over a year 
to sort this licensing stuff, how long will it take to (god forbid) merge 
the two libraries?  What are we solving here?