D compiler as part of GCC

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 23 de enero a las 16:15 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >Walter Bright, el 23 de enero a las 12:54 me escribiste:
> >>Jerry Quinn wrote:
> >>>Walter Bright Wrote:
> >>>>Will they take a fork of the dmd source, such that they own the
> >>>>copyright to the fork and Digital Mars still has copyright to
> >>>>the original?
> >>>Hi, Walter,
> >>>
> >>>The answer appears to be yes:
> >>>
> >>>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00430.html
> >>>
> >>>Jerry
> >>>
> >>That's great news. I suppose I should look over the forms they talk about!
> >
> >Great news indeed! Since DMD FE is GPL I think it won't be any trouble to
> >fold in the new changes back to GDC as they did (and LDC too), so it won't
> >be really a *fork*, right?
> 
> Well, still I won't be supporting gdc directly. It would mean a team
> that would be willing to take new DMD FE updates and fold them into
> GDC, and then follow whatever gcc's build and release conventions
> are.

Yes, what I meant is that the new DMD FE fork (owned by the FSF) will be
allowed to fold in changes in the original DMD FE (owned by DM). I hope
that can be done, to avoid duplicating a lot of effort fixing bugs in the
DMD FE (or even implementing new features).

> >Walter, please, please, please let us know how this progresses. Thanks!
> 
> Who in the FSF is a contact person about this?

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Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca)                     http://llucax.com.ar/
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