The path to unity [You ALL ignored my post!]

[Christopher Wright]

Don wrote:
> 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.

I support it, but I don't use these functions. A few changes in case 
wouldn't bother me in any case (except all upper, or small caps).