Steve Teale Wrote: > Michael P. Wrote: > > > Steve Teale Wrote: > > > > > Anders, Michael, could you possibly post a summary of who does what with > > > respect to GDC. > > > > > > There's clearly quite a bit of work going on, but it is difficult to pull > > > together a picture of what is happening. > > > > > > It would be useful if contact information for the parties involved could > > > be included, if the parties are willing. > > > > > > From what I've read, it seems that progress through the DMD versions > > > could be speeded up by having a number of people in parallel working on > > > the modifications that need to be made to get a version working. But this > > > would require some measure of organization which is impossible without > > > communication. > > > > > > > Right now, I mainly work on merging in D1 DMD front ends for GDC. > > I am also trying to do some others to get GDC a bit more organized, such as > > a folder for testing out pieces of D code to make sure GDC is working > > properly, and a folder that will document files specific to GDC and > > possibly some in the DMD front end and Phobos sources.(I don't think the > > documentation folder is in the hg repository yet though). > > > > I have also looked at trying to get GDC to work with later GCC versions, > > but haven't really got anywhere with that. > > Thanks Michael, that's helpful. If I put together a GDC-newbiew page, can I > quote you.
Yeah, sure, go ahead. > > In your view, is the bitbucket repository now the 'official' source? Also > there's a guy called Arthur who works on the Ubuntu GDC package. Are you in > contact with him, and do you know if he is going to upgrade to the 1.043 > version. I would probably consider the bitbucket repository to be the official sources. Any proposed changes that are said to me would only be made in the bitbucket repository. I am not in contact with Arthur, and do not know if he is going to upgrade the Ubuntu GDC to 1.043 anytime soon. > > If I build binaries of the sources periodically, can they be put in the repo. > I am retired, so I have some time to do stuff and deal with questions and > problems, and I'm a reasonably quick learner. That would be fine with me.
