== Quote from Sean Kelly (s...@invisibleduck.org)'s article > Don <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: > > Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > > "another lurker" <lur...@lurk.urk> wrote in message > > > > news:hrfcfi$1ea...@digitalmars.com... > > >> == Quote from Don (nos...@nospam.com)'s article > > >>> FeepingCreature wrote: > > >>> The quality-of-code metric seems to be universally acknowledged > > > > > - > > >>> after all, druntime itself is a fork of tango core. > > >>> "We think you suck, so we'll base our new standard library on your > > > > > work. >>> " > > >>> You seem to be unaware of the history, and this may be leading you > > > > > to > > >>> misunderstand the situation. > > >>> Sean Kelly wrote Ares as a replacement for Phobos. Tango began as > > > > > a > > >>> merger of Ares with Mango. "Tango core" is Ares. Druntime is also > > > > > Ares. > > >>> The primary author has never changed, and it's an unbroken > > > > > continuation > > >>> of development on a single code base. Ditto with tango.math, > > > > > (which was > > >>> written by me, originally in a project called 'mathextra'). > > >> Thank you Sean Kelly, Don and Steve Schveiguy for leaving Tango and > > > > coming >> to > > >> Phobos. It means very much for everybody. > > > > Don just said in the message you're replying to that they didn't > > > > leave > Tango. > > My most recent svn commit to Tango was only a month ago, so I still > > have a toe in both camps. But actually I've spent almost all of my > > time working on the compiler. > > I have not yet decided on how I will respond to this situation. > I don't know whether it's relevant, but I haven't even looked at Tango > code (other than my own modules) since Druntime was created. Regardless > of any personal reasons, I simply don't have the time to support more > than one project. > Regrding this latest bit of drama, I have to say that I'm coming to > regret my decision to help start Tango. It was a great opportunity to > do some work that interested me, but the cost to the community has been > too high. I sincerely hope that people get over whatever issues they > have and simply focus on making D a better language.
I appreciate your decision to leave that wasp nest and join Phobos. -- Gurney Halleck