dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org)'s
>> D2 will in all likelihood adopt Sean's runtime. We only need to put in
>> the adaptation work. I think Sean has done a tremendous contribution to
>> the community.
>> Andrei
> 
> Is the new model, then, going to become that Phobos and Tango are strictly
> user-level libraries that both run on top of druntime and can therefore be
> arbitrarily mixed and matched in code?

That is the case about Phobos2 at least.

Andrei

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
> > Sean Kelly Wrote:
> > 
> >> Alexander Pánek wrote:
> >>> Sean Kelly wrote:
> >>>> Alexander Panek wrote:
> >>>>> bearophile wrote:
> >>>>>> From:
> >>>>>>> regarding a common runtime for Phobos and Tango,<
> >>>>>> Can you give a little summary of this?
> >>>>> Well, there’s a project on dsource (druntime: http://dsource.org/projects/druntime) which is supposed to hold that common runtime.
> >>>> I just thought I'd mention that if anyone wants to play with this, the runtime is fully functional and there are versions available for both D 1.0 and D 2.0 (in a branch and trunk, respectively).  Assuming everything works out however, I expect that only Phobos for D 2.0 will actually use the common runtime, since D 1.0 is in maintenance mode now.
> >>> Ah, good to know. What are the differences between druntime and Tango’s runtime? What about the features Tango has but Phobos doesn’t?
> >> The location of things have changed and certain bits have been tightened up a bit compared to Tango, but the functionality should be identical to Tango's runtime.  With that in mind, if you want to try it out, build druntime and replace tango-base-dmd.lib with druntime-dmd.lib, get rid of the .di files in tango/core that are generated by the lib build process, and use the top-level memory, thread, etc, modules in their place.
> >> 
> >> The project is really just a proof of concept at this point.  I've got a version of Phobos for D 2.0 working on top of druntime with no problems, for example, but there is no official support yet for druntime from Phobos or Tango.
> >> 
> >> In short, druntime works just fine, but to actually use it right now you're pretty much on your own.  I'll be happy to answer any questions regarding setup, but don't have any plans yet for installation scripts, packaging, etc.
> >> 
> >> By the way, DMD is the only supported compiler at the moment.  I'll add support for the others later if the project actually takes off.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Sean
> > 
> > What has been done to coordinate with Walter and/or the Phobos development team? Does the license match Walter's requirement? Are there any known reasons why D2 would not want to adopt this runtime?
> 
> D2 will in all likelihood adopt Sean's runtime. We only need to put in the adaptation work. I think Sean has done a tremendous contribution to the community.
> 
> Andrei

I'm really pushing my luck now, but is there any timeline for finalizing D2's evaluation/adoption of druntime? My understanding from Sean's post is that he's already adapted Phobos to use the shared runtime. It sounds like it'd be really easy to drop in.