On 2013-02-06 08:56, Don wrote:
It would be great if people with extensive experience in other languages
could give a brief description of the structure of the corresponding
libraries. (Also include pseudo-standard libraries, for example boost in
C++).
1. How many total modules are there? How old is the library? What is the
recent growth rate of the library (Percentage increase in size per year,
over whatever time interval is reasonable for that library)?
Tango has 365 modules according to the documentation for D1 (including
the object module).
2. How deep is the hierarchy? How many top-level branches are there?
These are spread over 9 packages in the top level "tango" package.
It seems to have at most four levels of packages, including the top
level "tango" package.
3. How has the library dealt with obsolete functions and modules? Eg,
are there entire top-level branches which are obsolete? How many stupid
names are there (eg, "std.algorithm2") which were forced by the original
design becoming obsolete?
There are no obsolete top level packages. As far as I know there are no
stupid names. At one time they did remove the "collection" package and
replaced it with a "container" package. It's not really a stupid name.
There can be other cases like this where the optimal name is not used
but there are no names like "std.algorithm2".
--
/Jacob Carlborg
