Don wrote:
<small rant>
I completely disagree. I think the two libraries is a disaster. I can
see that so many people have been exposed to a lifetime of propaganda
that "competition is a good thing", but it's just propaganda.
Competition inevitably means wasted effort, and it's obvious in D.
</small rant>
Well I've been exposed to "competition is wasted effort" for the first
19 years of my life, and believe me, you wouldn't want to be subjected
to that :o). But, I hear your point.
Note, however that the gulf between Phobos and Tango mostly exists in
I/O; and C++ also has two I/O packages (the one inherited from C, and
the awful iostreams). So I don't think this is a big a problem as
stated. If we work at it, we could move the difference to be entirely a
I/O difference. But that would require willingless to do it, and I'm not
sure that it's really there.
<big rant>
In my attempt to bring both libraries together I have experienced
reactions from both sides which appeared hostile (or at least reluctant)
to a merger. Apart from Sean and myself, I don't see much evidence that
people actually want them to merge. They just want the other one to
disappear.
</big rant>
Well then you better start naming names :o). As far as yours truly is
concerned, it's a good thing to be able to work on a library that meshes
well with the power of D2. In many ways it's a dream language (sometimes
literally so...), and it ought to come with a dream library.
Andrei
