On 2010-11-09 23:04, Don wrote:
Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2010-11-09 17:43, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if Tango chose to turn away from compatibility
for the second time (be it theoretical compatibility for now since there
is no Tango for D2). The technical reasons are dwindling and became
tenuous to argue for, but however weak they are, they could be used to
promote a political motivation: a Tango/D2 offering would come again as
an either-or proposition for a standard library that precludes usage of
Tango2 and Phobos2 together. In my opinion that would be an extremely
dangerous gambit.
Clearly we don't see this in the same way. I see it like this, because
Tango was first it's druntime that chose to turn away from compatibility.
Sorry, that is completely false. druntime was created specifically to
allow Phobos and Tango to co-exist. At the time, almost all of the code
in druntime was written by Sean, and he was leading the Tango runtime
development. The expectation was that Tango would continue to use Sean's
runtime, it was just in a separate project.
Of course that would be the preferred way, there should have been some
kind of agreement for this (maybe there was but never fulfilled?) But
you also have to look at it from Tangos point of view. Why would Tango
drop support for anything that isn't DMD 32bit? Or should Tango keep
half of it's runtime in it's own repository and for the other half use
druntime.
For this to work the Tango team and the druntime
contributors/maintainers have collaborate and work together on a
runtime.
That runtime is druntime. If there is no understanding of that at Tango,
that is suicide.
Apparently not, since Sean ripped out all that wasn't necessary for
Phobos but is necessary for Tango. Why are you blaming everything on
Tango all the time?
Sean took all the code he had written. The other minor contributors did
not yet give permission for their code to be used, so of course it could
not be included.
I really think it's a shame they couldn't/wanted to give permission for
their code to be used.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
