dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

Denis Koroskin 2korden at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 14:54:20 PDT 2009


On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:48:00 +0400, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now works for FreeBSD 7.1!
>>>
>>> Nice!
>>>
>>> But is there a particularly good reason for disregarding version  
>>> identifiers already established by gdc and ldc?
>>>
>>> freebsd vs FreeBSD, darwin vs OSX
>>  FreeBSD is how it is normally written in the official FreeBSD  
>> literature, such as : http://www.freebsd.org/
>
> If you follow what's normally written in the official literature and  
> documentation shouldn't it be "MacOSX" then?
>

I also wonder why it is OSX. Are versions prior to MacOS 10 (which is marketed as MacOS X) officially unsupported by D?
It's also funny to see that Walter officially deprecates something that he didn't invent.

Not that I complain about something, it's just a bit strange...



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