• James Lu (10/10) Aug 26 2020 Hello,
• James Blachly (5/10) Aug 26 2020 I pointed this out on this forum in May 2019, so don't hold your breath.
• Iain Buclaw (11/22) Aug 29 2020 There's pending changes to move them to an /old path on the site
• Iain Buclaw (2/19) Sep 03 2020 It has been pushed live.

James Lu <jamtlu gmail.com> writes:

Hello,

The links on the D IRC channel as well as 
https://dlang.org/download.html for GDC all point to 
https://gdcproject.org/downloads, which last appears to be 
updated several years ago.

Can we archive the old site and make GDC's website redirect to, 
say, a GCC 11 nightly build? Perhaps it should also have some 
information on what features are missing and/or the DMDFE version.

It looks bad to have one of the main compilers point to a website 
with downloads timestamped "2016."

James Blachly <james.blachly gmail.com> writes:

On 8/26/20 7:37 PM, James Lu wrote:
 https://gdcproject.org/downloads, which last appears to be updated 
 several years ago.
 ...
 It looks bad to have one of the main compilers point to a website with 
 downloads timestamped "2016."

I pointed this out on this forum in May 2019, so don't hold your breath.

A fellow did response and helpfully offered to build a recent version 
for me -- but the website is really bad advertising for Dlang generally, 
as you point out.

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:

On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 23:37:24 UTC, James Lu wrote:
 Hello,

 The links on the D IRC channel as well as 
 https://dlang.org/download.html for GDC all point to 
 https://gdcproject.org/downloads, which last appears to be 
 updated several years ago.

 Can we archive the old site and make GDC's website redirect to, 
 say, a GCC 11 nightly build? Perhaps it should also have some 
 information on what features are missing and/or the DMDFE 
 version.

 It looks bad to have one of the main compilers point to a 
 website with downloads timestamped "2016."

There's pending changes to move them to an /old path on the site 
[1], but have not gotten round to pushing it live.

While I don't provide any automated build service, there does 
exist some build tools within the gdc infrastructure code [2], if 
someone wants to do some work to create a pipeline for binary 
builds, please give a shout out and I'll provide a server in 
order to get that done.

[1] 
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/commit/76be6f47aee91b3888ca6d5e6a9cb5650c08339c
[2] https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/build-gdc

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:

On Saturday, 29 August 2020 at 18:33:47 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 On Wednesday, 26 August 2020 at 23:37:24 UTC, James Lu wrote:
 Hello,

 The links on the D IRC channel as well as 
 https://dlang.org/download.html for GDC all point to 
 https://gdcproject.org/downloads, which last appears to be 
 updated several years ago.

 Can we archive the old site and make GDC's website redirect 
 to, say, a GCC 11 nightly build? Perhaps it should also have 
 some information on what features are missing and/or the DMDFE 
 version.

 It looks bad to have one of the main compilers point to a 
 website with downloads timestamped "2016."

 There's pending changes to move them to an /old path on the 
 site [1], but have not gotten round to pushing it live.

It has been pushed live.