On Feb 15, 2013, at 3:29 AM, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote: > On 2013-02-15 07:29, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > >> It could then the only roadblock is dependency on Tango. >> The only problem I had with serialization is that it's like using huge >> module to do the "dump this struct in JSON" kind of thing that's doable >> in 20-30 lines. > > It's not huge. I already had the serialization library available. Not using > it would be stupid. > > Having 30k+ lines of code just to get the time _is_ huge. > >> In the option b Anyway the comment about porting from Tango still applies. > > Just because you guys are too stubborn to include it in the distribution.
Tango is distributed under an incompatible license. A license that unfortunately can't be changed because many of the Tango authors are MIA. There's nothing political involved. And if the dependency is just on a JSON module, that's easy to resolve. We have a new std.json module in the queue anyway, don't we?