Any chance to call Tango as Extended Standard Library

[John Reimer]

Hello Don,

> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
> The other option (which I would prefer) is for druntime to get bigger,
> and encompass more of the common code from both. So that both Phobos
> and Tango became (crucial) extension libraries over a small core. And
> the bigger that common core becomes, the smaller the library problem
> becomes.
> 


Actually, I very much like that idea.  And it seems to make sense too.


-JJR