The XML module in Phobos
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Tue Jul 28 08:54:36 PDT 2009
Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:38:36 -0400, Adam D. Ruppe thusly wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:23:50PM -0300, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> But *why* use or make another one when the Tango one is already
>> excellent? :(
>
> Copyright.
There are most likely several issues that prevent the reuse of that code.
First, the indentation, module boundaries, and naming conventions may
differ (tabs vs spaces, 4 vs 8 spaces, camelCase vs foo_bar etc.).
Next, does it use the slow object oriented approach like the rest of
Tango (and unlike Phobos, which uses a very lightweight procedural
model). Are there any benchmark results that show the approach Tango uses
is any good, i.e. more performant than the ones for Java and C++ (even
with larger xml documents). If it is, then the idea can be copied to
Phobos as well.
Finally, the copyright is a problem unless it is handed over to
digitalmars. Otherwise it might get troublesome to sell D later for
commercial use when Phobos becomes the Standard library for D 2.0.
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