On 8/16/2010 9:33 PM, dsimcha wrote: > What are the current blockers to merging non-ancient versions of D2 into GDC? > I've been quietly following the project and noticed that: > > 1. It's actively being worked on. > > 2. D1 is up to date. > > 3. There were a bunch of issues w.r.t. druntime, but these seem to be > resolved. > > 4. A new version of D2 hasn't been merged in ~1 month, even though the > project is generally active. > > 5. There was some concern about breaking the currently working 2.019. IMHO > this is **completely** unwarranted, as support for such an outdated D2 version > is probably **completely useless** to just about everyone. Probably no > non-trivial code that compiles for 2.019 will work on the latest version or > vice-versa, and the only code that's still written for 2.019 is really old, > unmaintained code that noone cares about. IMHO until you're at least close to > the latest version, you should just break older versions with reckless abandon > to march towards getting recent, useful versions working.
Along similar lines, I'd dearly love to see gdc+d2 sitting on top of the druntime rather than maintaining an internal, ever drifting, fork. To that end, I'd welcome patches (preferably small baby-step type patches, not huge lump sum code drops) to narrow the differences.
