Walter Bright wrote: > Ameer Armaly wrote: >> I see. What about the actual "standard library bits" for common tasks >> like file I/O, strings, date and time, filesystem manipulation, etc. >> My main gripe is having two regularly accepted libraries that do the >> same extremely common functions; it makes us look unpolished, >> especially when there is the "community" versus "official" difference >> I mentioned earlier. Why not just merge the two libraries into the one >> D standard library and be done with it? > > That's being done for D2. It is not for D1, as that would break > everyone's code.
Well, one runtime library. Anything beyond that isn't at all clear, is it? There's some rather fundamental design differences -- neither right nor wrong -- between Phobos and Tango. I don't see those converging at this point. Regardless, able to sit side by side is still a big step forward. Later, Brad
