Phobos/Tango Unification Plans (rationale)

[Moritz Warning]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:12:17 +0200, Don wrote:

> Moritz Warning wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:56:06 +0000, Moritz Warning wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:31:46 +0200, Don wrote:
>>>
>>> [..]
>>>> My preferred option would be to remove tango.math.Math (stupid name
>>>> anyway), combine it with tango.math.IEEE (another doubtful name) and
>>>> rename it as std.math.
>>>> The more advanced math functions would remain in Tango, since I like
>>>> the two-level heirachy which Tango provides. The advanced functions
>>>> which are currently duplicated (eg, std.math.tgamma) would be removed
>>>> from Phobos.
>>>>
>>>>
>> The near future is that Tango and Phobos will live next to each other
>> because they are about to get a a common runtime.
>> 
>> Phobos may become a library for starting with D and people will switch
>> to Tango further or later. Similar to the way it is already.
>> 
>> People who (have to?) care about the Phobos license (Public Domain) vs.
>> Tango license (BSD style/Public Domain mix) will probably stay with
>> Phobos.
>> 
>> 
>> Tango already shares quite some code with Phobos. So it might be not
>> that unlikely that Tango and Phobos would be bundled along with a
>> compiler. Phobos would then be able to redirect to Tango for shared
>> code.
> 
> 
>> Maybe Phobos will be dropped and Walter&staff become part of the Tango
>> team. But that would introduces a bunch of human related problems.
> 
> When I look at the team for Phobos and Tango, I actually don't see that
> many areas where they are in direct competition.
> 
> Andrei and Bartosz seem much more interested in algorithms and stuff
> close to the runtime, whereas Tango has a lot of contributers with a
> much stronger application focus, and a huge body of code that began in
> Mango. It would be a monumental waste of time for Andrei to implement a
> HttpClient code, for example.

Right, this diminishes friction.
Let's see what will happen.
I think things need to go step by step, without thinking about a master 
plan.