D being talked about at gcc.gnu.org

[Bruno Medeiros]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, clayasaurus wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if anyone has ever seen this link? Sorry if it has been brought up
>> before.
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00541.html
> 
> Yup.. subject has been brought up several times.  The problem is to be 
> integrated into the official gnu gcc source tree copyright has to be 
> signed over to the fsf.  That's a showstopper, unfortunatly.  IMHO, that's 
> a draconian policy, but it's RMS's right to set those policies for 
> software under the FSF umbrella no matter how much I think it hurts/sucks.
> 
> Thankfully, building GDC out of tree like it is today is very very easy.
> 
> Later,
> Brad

Shouldn't we wait until the D compiler gets a less beta before we start 
worrying about that. It seems to me D is still far off from "1.0", so is 
it good to start trying to release to gcc or whateverelse in this state?


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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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