Ideas and Enhancements

This is a page to list concepts and ideas for possible future enhancements and additions around the Tango core. Hopefully we will see an active community such that Tango can become a catalyst for inventive software features in the D world and beyond.

Established discussions

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• Asynchronous IO
• Additions and cleanups for FTP VFS adapter
• Improvements to the collection package
• Generic Mime for Http and Email
• Socket timeout discussion
• New arguments parsing module
• Time types etc
• DeRailed - RoR implementation

Completed

• XML package design - Design interfaces for an easy to use and efficient XML package
• VFS package design - Look into a Virtual File System design that can be applied to compressed libraries, net accessed file repositories (FTP), etc.
• Compression package design - Look into a compression system that can cope with several algorithms.

Google Summer of Code

Tango has applied as a mentoring organization for the seasons 2007 and 2008, but without much luck. Look to GSoC ideas for more information.