18.10.2011 8:00, Caligo пишет:
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:52 PM, SiegeLord <n...@none.com <mailto:n...@none.com>> wrote: I just wanted to get the word out about a little project me and a few other people been working on for the few past months, in case anyone feels like helping out (or just as an FYI). This project is the D2 port of the Tango framework library. You can read about it here: https://github.com/haskelSiegeLord/Tango-D2 <https://github.com/SiegeLord/Tango-D2> We are currently a little more than half way done in terms of modules fiddled with. Currently there are 181 modules ported out of approximately 343 (give or take 20). Currently only the dmd compiler and Linux platform are supported... but obviously we want to get all the other platforms/compilers as time goes on. I'm guessing at the current rate of porting we'll be done in about half a year. Now, the project is actually two projects in one. The first project is a D2 port proper that tries to keep API semantics the same as the D1 original. I preside over this aspect, and you can see the rough porting guidelines in the repository. This is the 'd2port' branch in my repository. The second project is a more ambitious effort to rewrite some aspects of Tango without preserving semantics or anything. mtachrono presides over this aspect, so you can talk to him about the motivations behind it. This is the 'master' branch in my repository. That's all. Cheers. -SiegeLord Why? What's the point? Why not work on Phobos instead?
+1 to Caligo. I agree that Tango is a good library (and was the best one for D1) but, IMHO, porting it to D2 is a bad idea. I'm the one who has a big D1+Tango project and I'd better rewrite it with D2+Phobos, because:
0. I don't want to have a "two standard libraries problem" with D2 (which one to select?).
1. Phobos has a better design (Tango is too complicated in some places, has a lot of things I (and a regular programmer IMHO) don't use, and has bad design decisions sometimes - both internal and user API)
2. Phobos has less _critical bugs_ because of better code control (e.g. Tango has memory corruption bug for a very long time in Vector container (#2064)).
3. There is no Andrei Alexandrescu clone to generate that perfect ideas for Tango.
