On 25 March 2012 01:34, Daniel Green <ven...@gmail.com> wrote: > First, I want apologize. For the lack of a responses lately and because I > didn't include installation instructions in the latest release notices, but > they are still included in the readme that comes in every release. > > Second, I'd like to offer some background on why I chose the method of > distribution I did. > > For a long time, GDC2 on Windows didn't work. That combined with the > constant work being done on GDC, I wanted to package only the minimal > number of files necessary. Since I'm using exactly the same > arguments(scripts really) as was used to compile TDM, it made it simple > enough to drop in the GDC bits. > > That allowed the rapid updating to newer versions of GDC by extracting > into TDM-GCC again. Very useful when needing to test in an unpolluted > environment. > > Starting with the first working release that supported TLS back in > January, things got complicated. Currently, there is a patch for GCC, > binutils, and the MinGW runtime required to support TLS. The GCC patch > makes TLS incompatible between D and any other language. The binutils only > adds new functionality and fixes a bug. The MinGW runtime files can really > break things, because I also had to update to a newer version. This was > something I did note in the last release. > > I have submitted the binutils and runtime patches but haven't heard much. > The GCC patch needs cleaning up before I'm willing to submit it. > > I also deliberately wanted the install to be done with a zip file to keep > away the faint of heart. GDC/MinGW contained many bugs and I wanted it to > be known it wasn't ready for use. Additionally, it also allows rapid > updating to more recent builds. Now that GDC is current with DMD the need > for rapid releases has disappeared and it may be possible to release > quasi-stable binaries. > > I'm going to update GDC/MinGW to tip and release a new zip file. If there > are no serious issues and Iain agrees, I'll consider doing a beta release > and making an installer. Mostly it depends on if I feel that the release > can be usable long term. I really have no interest in maintaining a fourth > MinGW installer(mingw, mingw-w64, TDM). > > Best Regards, > > Daniel Green >
Cheers for the info. Here's hoping the release works out well. What instabilities are you primarily concerned about with the existing release? I've been using it for a couple of weeks, and had no problems. Are there particular things you anticipate causing issues?
