Digital Mars - D.gnu - So .... ded? Or just pining for the fjords?

↑ ↓ ← → Gregor Richards <Richards codu.org> writes:

downs wrote:
 (GDC, that is)
 
 What do you think?


What the hell? It's been thirteen days since the last commit, not six 
months.

Stop being an idiot.

  - Gregor Richards

Dec 14 2007

↑ ↓ ← → downs <default_357-line yahoo.de> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:
 downs wrote:
 (GDC, that is)

 What do you think?


 What the hell? It's been thirteen days since the last commit, not six
 months.
 
 Stop being an idiot.
 
  - Gregor Richards


Still, this is unnerving. GDC is the only good alternative
to the borked-by-design DMD that we have, so forgive me for
getting a bit anxious for news :)

 --downs

Dec 15 2007

↑ ↓ ← → Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:

Gregor Richards wrote:

 downs wrote:
 (GDC, that is)
 
 What do you think?


 What the hell? It's been thirteen days since the last commit, not six
 months.


Looking at the commits from the last few months (there has been precious
few) all seems to handle cross platform Phobos issues - not a single one
has gone into the compiler itself. This seems to me to be a similar problem
to that of Walter and Phobos - one developer can only focus on this many
things. GDC is getting severly behind, and if I have understood correctly,
the Debian GDC team has a large number of patches (also one for GCC 4.2)
that has been largely ignored (they are at least not merged into GDC
trunk). I have tried to get Tango working on various arches (all Linux),
but GDC is seriously limited once you get past the runtime and onto more
challenging D code. I am no compiler writer, but what I understand from the
issues I have, is that for instance 64 bit is badly supported beyond X86_64
(there are many other 64 bit platforms out there). 

I believe that the scope of GDC (a multiplatform D compiler) is way too big
for the current way to organize development (one man not visibly
interacting with other contributors).

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango

Dec 30 2007