Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[John Reimer]

Hello Johan,


> As a user of D primarily and of the standard libraries secondly I see
> this reluctance to solve the library situation as the single biggest
> threat to D. It creates a division in the community and an uncertainty
> of which library to base my own libraries on. If I use one and the
> other wins the competition I have to redo a lot of work. It's also a
> headache when distributing code as I don't know which functions and
> packages I can assume exists.
> 


I hear you.   But the argument against this would probably be that you would 
not have to redo all your work... you just start integrating the use of the 
other (more popular) library in your work (since they have common runtimes). 
 While this is convenient, yet it would seem to be cumbersome.  Now projects 
will have dependencies on both full libraries including the libary that falls 
from favour (if that in fact happens).  


On the other hand, it wouldn't be so bad if one of Tango or Phobos became 
a 3rd-party/extension library (more suitably this should be Tango), in which 
case it would seem more natural and familiar to use it as an addon to the 
other library.


-JJR