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reply "Simen Haugen" <simen norstat.no> writes:
I've had projects using phobos as I needed a library that only supported 
phobos. I've had the same for Tango...
This issue has been raised many times, so I'm not trying to ask phobos vs. 
tango here.

TioPort is tango-only, MiniD is now tango-only, and DDL is moving to tango 
soon too. For me this means trouble as I earlier had to switch a project to 
phobos for the sake of enki in ddl. I guess there are many who have the same 
problem.
Tango has a nice page listing compatible projects, but I cannot find any 
similar page for phobos...

I guess it's too much work to make support both libraries, so it would be 
nice to know what phobos libraries are making the switch to Tango-only (and 
also those who are going to support both in the future).
Jul 23 2007
next sibling parent jcc7 <technocrat7 gmail.com> writes:
== Quote from Simen Haugen (simen norstat.no)'s article

 I've had projects using phobos as I needed a library that only
 supported phobos. I've had the same for Tango...

 This issue has been raised many times, so I'm not trying to ask
 phobos vs. tango here.

 TioPort is tango-only, MiniD is now tango-only, and DDL is moving to
 tango soon too. For me this means trouble as I earlier had to switch
 a project to phobos for the sake of enki in ddl. I guess there are
 many who have the same problem.


I'm guessing that many ideas for projects have ended prematurely due to similar
problems.


 Tango has a nice page listing compatible projects, but I cannot find
 any similar page for phobos...


And we can't expect Walter to be in charge of such a page because it would
always
be horribly out-of-date. Someone can certainly start a page in Wiki4D
(http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi) if it's something someone wants to do.


 I guess it's too much work to make support both libraries, so it
 would be nice to know what phobos libraries are making the switch to
 Tango-only (and also those who are going to support both in the
 future).


Have you looked into using tangobos? (http://www.dsource.org/projects/tangobos)

I'm not saying it's ideal (you'd still need to install Tango and Tangobos), but
it
might be easier than limiting your libraries to Phobos-only or Tango-only. It's
another layer to install, but it should make bridging the gap between Tango and
Phobos easier. (I think I gave it a quick test, and it seemed to work okay.)

jcc7
Jul 23 2007
prev sibling parent reply Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:
Simen Haugen wrote:

 I've had projects using phobos as I needed a library that only supported 
 phobos. I've had the same for Tango...
 This issue has been raised many times, so I'm not trying to ask phobos vs. 
 tango here.
 
 TioPort is tango-only, MiniD is now tango-only, and DDL is moving to tango 
 soon too. For me this means trouble as I earlier had to switch a project to 
 phobos for the sake of enki in ddl. I guess there are many who have the same 
 problem.
 Tango has a nice page listing compatible projects, but I cannot find any 
 similar page for phobos...
 
 I guess it's too much work to make support both libraries, so it would be 
 nice to know what phobos libraries are making the switch to Tango-only (and 
 also those who are going to support both in the future).
 
 


And now, for a shameless plug.

Not every library is supported by DSSS (WINK WINK), but for those that 
are, the results of the DSSS test suite are pretty telling.

http://dsss.codu.org/results.html

  - Gregor Richards
Jul 23 2007
next sibling parent reply Aarti_pl <aarti interia.pl> writes:
Gregor Richards pisze:

 
 And now, for a shameless plug.
 
 Not every library is supported by DSSS (WINK WINK), but for those that 
 are, the results of the DSSS test suite are pretty telling.
 
 http://dsss.codu.org/results.html
 
  - Gregor Richards


Wow, now I am really surprised. How is it possible that my library Doost 
is compiling successfully with Tango, without a single line effort to 
port it to Tango?

Magic just happens ;-)

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)
Jul 23 2007
parent Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:
Aarti_pl wrote:

 Gregor Richards pisze:

 And now, for a shameless plug.

 Not every library is supported by DSSS (WINK WINK), but for those that 
 are, the results of the DSSS test suite are pretty telling.

 http://dsss.codu.org/results.html

  - Gregor Richards


 
 Wow, now I am really surprised. How is it possible that my library Doost 
 is compiling successfully with Tango, without a single line effort to 
 port it to Tango?
 
 Magic just happens ;-)
 
 BR
 Marcin Kuszczak
 (aarti_pl)


Unfortunately, the DSSS test suite doesn't yet try to /run/ any code 
compiled against the library, so sometimes weird magic happens. It's 
still sort of a "work in progress."

  - Gregor Richards
Jul 23 2007
prev sibling parent "Simen Haugen" <simen norstat.no> writes:
Yes, that's a nice overview, and this shows that most of them works on both 
phobos and tango. The libraries I mentioned is not there though.

"Gregor Richards" <Richards codu.org> wrote in message 
news:46A4B33D.1010302 codu.org...

 Simen Haugen wrote:

 I've had projects using phobos as I needed a library that only supported 
 phobos. I've had the same for Tango...
 This issue has been raised many times, so I'm not trying to ask phobos 
 vs. tango here.

 TioPort is tango-only, MiniD is now tango-only, and DDL is moving to 
 tango soon too. For me this means trouble as I earlier had to switch a 
 project to phobos for the sake of enki in ddl. I guess there are many who 
 have the same problem.
 Tango has a nice page listing compatible projects, but I cannot find any 
 similar page for phobos...

 I guess it's too much work to make support both libraries, so it would be 
 nice to know what phobos libraries are making the switch to Tango-only 
 (and also those who are going to support both in the future).


 And now, for a shameless plug.

 Not every library is supported by DSSS (WINK WINK), but for those that 
 are, the results of the DSSS test suite are pretty telling.

 http://dsss.codu.org/results.html

  - Gregor Richards
Jul 23 2007