What's missing from Phobos for Orbit (package manager)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-15 03:07, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> There's a big difference between admitting it exists (I don't think that anyone
> denies that it does) and treating it as part of the standard library. And I
> wouldn't expect it to ever be treated as part of the standard library no
> matter how good it is, just like no other 3rd party library is going to be
> treated as if it were part of the standard library. The closest that there is
> to that is when we link against C stuff (like curl), and we don't even do a lot
> of that. The only way that 3rd party stuff is going to be part of the standard
> library is if it's actually integrated intto the standard library just like
> everything  else in there has been, and that puts certain requirements on the
> API (e.g. range-based) and the license (i.e. Boost), both of which Tango fails
> at. It's perfectly fine to do things differently in a 3rd party library but not
> in the standard library.

This discussion is clearing running in circles.

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/Jacob Carlborg