The path to unity [You ALL ignored my post!]
Don
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Fri Feb 6 21:29:15 PST 2009
Don wrote:
> With the druntime project, we now have a run time which is shared
> between Tango and Phobos. This is a huge step forward, but it's still
> not much use without some common user code.
>
> The highest priorities which I see are, in order:
> (1) the C standard library
> tango.stdc = std.stdc
> (2) low-level compiler-related modules
> most of tango.core -- for the most part, this is already part of druntime.
> (3) tango.math.Math + tango.math.IEEE = std.math - tgamma().
>
> Can we get agreement on unification of these, at least?
>
> If we are able to reach agreement on this, I propose the next step would
> be to ensure that the contents of these files be made "identical" on
> Phobos2 and Tango. ("identical" meaning that when the Tango code is
> ported to D2, it will be identical to the Phobos2 version, except for
> module name differences).
Please read it again. I'm not asking the question "where do we put it?"
Rather, to agree that it WILL eventually go SOMEWHERE. If we agree on
that, there are immediate implications. Those modules have some
functions which differ in naming (mostly in case). That's a difference
we can fix right now without the politics.
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