• "Denys Bezsmerthyi" <denys.bezmsertnyi gmail.com> Jan 07 2009
• "Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> Jan 07 2009
• Moritz Warning <moritzwarning web.de> Jan 08 2009
• "Denys Bezsmertnyi" <denys.bezmsertnyi gmail.com> Jan 09 2009
• Moritz Warning <moritzwarning web.de> Jan 09 2009
• Moritz Warning <moritzwarning web.de> Jan 09 2009
• Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic tiscali.co.uk> Jan 31 2009
• Nicolay Korslund <korslund gmail.com> Feb 25 2009

"Denys Bezsmerthyi" <denys.bezmsertnyi gmail.com> writes:

Hi Guys,

My name is Denys Bezmsertnyi.
I'm expirienced developer and I just had a talk with Walter about my 
participation with D lang
and he told me that I need to contact you becasue there is a lot of gnu D 
work (Walter's message bellow).

Please help me to join your team: I'm ready to get tasks and implement it to 
help you with gdc development.

Cheers,

-
Denys

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Walter Bright
wrote:

   One compiler project that needs a lot of help is updating gdc (the
   gnu D compiler). 

"Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:05:21 +0300, Denys Bezsmerthyi
<denys.bezmsertnyi gmail.com> wrote:

 Hi Guys,

 My name is Denys Bezmsertnyi.
 I'm expirienced developer and I just had a talk with Walter about my  
 participation with D lang
 and he told me that I need to contact you becasue there is a lot of gnu  
 D work (Walter's message bellow).

 Please help me to join your team: I'm ready to get tasks and implement  
 it to help you with gdc development.

 Cheers,

 -
 Denys

 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Walter Bright
 wrote:

    One compiler project that needs a lot of help is updating gdc (the
    gnu D compiler). 


Hello, Denis!

If you have little experience with GCC itself, it would be easier to get you
started with LDC team. LDC development is very active, with many great people
involved so you can always get tasks and instant help.

Project web page: http://dsource.org/projects/ldc

Join IRC at irc://chat.freenode.org/ldc

Moritz Warning <moritzwarning web.de> writes:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:05:21 +0800, Denys Bezsmerthyi wrote:

 Hi Guys,
 
 My name is Denys Bezmsertnyi.
 I'm expirienced developer and I just had a talk with Walter about my
 participation with D lang
 and he told me that I need to contact you becasue there is a lot of gnu
 D work (Walter's message bellow).
 
 Please help me to join your team: I'm ready to get tasks and implement
 it to help you with gdc development.
 
 Cheers,
 
 -
 Denys
 
 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
 
    One compiler project that needs a lot of help is updating gdc (the
    gnu D compiler).


Very nice to hear!
GDC needs to be updated to the newest dmd frontend code.

"Denys Bezsmertnyi" <denys.bezmsertnyi gmail.com> writes:

Hi Moritz,

It is interesting. Could you please provide me with details.

Thanks,

-
Denys

"Moritz Warning" <moritzwarning web.de> wrote in message 
news:gk4qlu$18f9$1 digitalmars.com...
 On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:05:21 +0800, Denys Bezsmerthyi wrote:

 Hi Guys,

 My name is Denys Bezmsertnyi.
 I'm expirienced developer and I just had a talk with Walter about my
 participation with D lang
 and he told me that I need to contact you becasue there is a lot of gnu
 D work (Walter's message bellow).

 Please help me to join your team: I'm ready to get tasks and implement
 it to help you with gdc development.

 Cheers,

 -
 Denys

 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

    One compiler project that needs a lot of help is updating gdc (the
    gnu D compiler).


 Very nice to hear!
 GDC needs to be updated to the newest dmd frontend code. 

Moritz Warning <moritzwarning web.de> writes:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:08:13 +0800, Denys Bezsmertnyi wrote:

 Hi Moritz,
 
 It is interesting. Could you please provide me with details.
 
 Thanks,
 
 -
 Denys
 
 "Moritz Warning" <moritzwarning web.de> wrote in message
 news:gk4qlu$18f9$1 digitalmars.com...
 On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:05:21 +0800, Denys Bezsmerthyi wrote:

 Hi Guys,

 My name is Denys Bezmsertnyi.
 I'm expirienced developer and I just had a talk with Walter about my
 participation with D lang
 and he told me that I need to contact you becasue there is a lot of
 gnu D work (Walter's message bellow).

 Please help me to join your team: I'm ready to get tasks and implement
 it to help you with gdc development.

 Cheers,

 -
 Denys

 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

    One compiler project that needs a lot of help is updating gdc (the
    gnu D compiler).


 Very nice to hear!
 GDC needs to be updated to the newest dmd frontend code.




As you can see here:

http://dgcc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dgcc/trunk/?view=log

the dmd frontend used for gdc hasn't been updated for over half a year.
Commit message was "Merge DMD 1.030 and 2.014".  

Merging the newest dmd frontend into gdc is the main maintenance work 
that has to be done for gdc.

The newest frontend code is included in the release file.
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.039.zip
Though, an incremental update following each release might be easier.

Here is also a quick howto for compiling dmd (just in case):
http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/GdcInstallation

It would be great when gdc is up-to-date again!

Best wishes,
Moritz

Moritz Warning <moritzwarning web.de> writes:

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:50:25 +0000, Moritz Warning wrote:
 It would be great when gdc is up-to-date again!


 Best wishes,
 Moritz


Anyway, many people would like to see gdc being updated to the newest gcc
(only 4.1.x works atm.).
There was some work done before already in the form of patches.
You can search the newsgroup or simply ask on the #D irc channel.

Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic tiscali.co.uk> writes:

Denys Bezsmerthyi wrote:
 Hi Guys,
 
 My name is Denys Bezmsertnyi.
 I'm expirienced developer and I just had a talk with Walter about my 
 participation with D lang
 and he told me that I need to contact you becasue there is a lot of gnu 
 D work (Walter's message bellow).
 
 Please help me to join your team: I'm ready to get tasks and implement 
 it to help you with gdc development.
 
 Cheers,
 
 -
 Denys
 
 On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Walter Bright
 wrote:
 
   One compiler project that needs a lot of help is updating gdc (the
   gnu D compiler).


Denys, I am sure the whole D community would appreciate if you help the 
GDC project. As someone stated before, maybe the first thing to do is to 
update GDC with latest DMD frontend.
You should contact Arthur (the other guy working on the GDC), because he 
is the only active developer there.

Nicolay Korslund <korslund gmail.com> writes:

Hello Denys,

I'm the author of several D projects (OpenMW and Monster). I
agree with people that the lack of an up-to-date gdc has been
a problem for a long time, especially since gdc is currently the
only option for D on 64 bit, and it doesn't work very well on
that platform.

I'm ready to take an active part in this project as well - it's high
 time gdc was resurrected. (If necessary I might even be willing
to take over the role as project lead.) However, like you, I
would probably need quite a few pointers to get me started.

Denys, I tried sending you an email, but the gmail address
seems to be invalid. But if you're still working on this, I'm more
than willing to help you however I can.

Nico

Denys Bezsmerthyi Wrote:
 Hi Guys,
 
 My name is Denys Bezmsertnyi.
 I'm expirienced developer and I just had a talk with Walter about my 
 participation with D lang
 and he told me that I need to contact you becasue there is a lot of gnu D 
 work (Walter's message bellow).
 
 Please help me to join your team: I'm ready to get tasks and implement it to 
 help you with gdc development.