On 3/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad Roberts</b> <<a href="mailto:braddr@puremagic.com">braddr@puremagic.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jim Miller wrote:<br><br>> I'm trying to find the gdc-0.18 alpha1 that was supposedly released some<br>> time ago. Is this still available? I'm trying to figure out the best way<br>> that I can help move gdc forward but want to start from the "latest"
<br>> sources. I've looked at the D Bugzilla site for some ideas on what I can<br>> start on. I'm not particularly familiar with the internals of gcc so I'm<br>> not sure how much I can help in that area but I'm very willing to write
<br>> documentation or help clean up libraries if someone wants to make a<br>> suggestion on where I should start.<br><br>I don't recommend working on the gdc front end. David, the gdc guy, has<br>been working on getting a new release ready. The
0.18 alpha 1 release I<br>did is available if you want to play with it, but David's release won't be<br>based on it, so I'm not sure what value it has. I've stopped working on<br>it and won't be making any sort of official gdc release based off of it at
<br>this point. Once a new gdc release is done that's caught up, then more<br>input on it might be of value. Anything you find wrong with the current<br>release, based on dmd 0.140, is so far out of date that I'm not sure how
<br>useful it is.<br><br>Are you interested in working on the d compiler itself or on libraries<br>that people use to support their applications? IMHO, the latter is where<br>d needs the most help. Looking at projects like ares or mango would be
<br>good, though I haven't looked at either yet.<br><br>That help?<br><br>Later,<br>Brad<br></blockquote></div><br>
Thanks for the feedback, I'll hold off on doing anything with the compiler until David releases his next version. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks<br>
Jim<br>
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