GNU version 0.18

[Jim Miller]

On 3/24/06, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jim Miller wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to find the gdc-0.18 alpha1 that was supposedly released some
> > time ago.  Is this still available?  I'm trying to figure out the best
> way
> > that I can help move gdc forward but want to start from the "latest"
> > sources.  I've looked at the D Bugzilla site for some ideas on what I
> can
> > start on.  I'm not particularly familiar with the internals of gcc so
> I'm
> > not sure how much I can help in that area but I'm very willing to write
> > documentation or help clean up libraries if someone wants to make a
> > suggestion on where I should start.
>
> I don't recommend working on the gdc front end.  David, the gdc guy, has
> been working on getting a new release ready.  The 0.18 alpha 1 release I
> did is available if you want to play with it, but David's release won't be
> based on it, so I'm not sure what value it has.  I've stopped working on
> it and won't be making any sort of official gdc release based off of it at
> this point.  Once a new gdc release is done that's caught up, then more
> input on it might be of value.  Anything you find wrong with the current
> release, based on dmd 0.140, is so far out of date that I'm not sure how
> useful it is.
>
> Are you interested in working on the d compiler itself or on libraries
> that people use to support their applications?  IMHO, the latter is where
> d needs the most help.  Looking at projects like ares or mango would be
> good, though I haven't looked at either yet.
>
> That help?
>
> Later,
> Brad
>

Thanks for the feedback, I'll hold off on doing anything with the compiler
until David releases his next version.

I'm actually more interested in the supporting libraries since that's what I
think will hold back acceptance of D.  I'll take a look at Ares and see what
I can do.

With regards to gdc, do you know if the intent is to continue using Phobos
as it is distributed by Walter or is it going to use a parallel one?  Sorry
for directing these questions to you but you seem to be the one that's the
most vocal with gdc.

Thanks
Jim
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