On 2010-04-27 10:58:33 -0400, bearophile <[email protected]> said:
In D2 the runtime of Phobos and Tango have being merged, so all D programmers can install both libs. So the two libs must have distinct contents. So I'm for removing the time module from Phobos, and keep only the Tango one. So this module is waste of time, and efforts have to be redirected in improving or rewriting the time module of Tango. Othrwise in D2 it will happen the same mess it's happend in D1, where you have two partially duplicated libs. All D2 programmers will want to install both libs, and they will not desire to choose what time lib to use. One time lit is enough.
Tango's license is more restrictive than Phobos. It might not be a concern to you, but this is one reason someone might not want to use Tango in a project. Saying everyone will always want to use both libs is a little too much optimistic in my opinion. Phobos isn't using the Boost license for nothing.
About the mess, as long as both libraries run on the same runtime, the problems should be confined to writing conversion function to convert the data types that differs between the two libraries. I don't think this is anything to worry about: those things happens all the time when you're using libraries from different sources.
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