GDC D2 port status

[Iain Buclaw]

Not sure this is common knowledge, as am still getting questions 
/ propositions off people for this.  Through collaboration of the 
gcc maintainers at Debian/Ubuntu, gdc has been merged in with the 
gcc source package, and is available for all architectures 
supported by Debian (albeit, with the majority shipping without a 
library).

You can view binary packages here:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/gdc-4.8

And for those interested, can track testsuite/unittester 
pass/failures at this link (Click on the "installed", link, and 
do a search for "gdc tests")

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-4.8

I think a thanks to Matthias and Peter are in order for their 
efforts for this. :)

Obviously we will need to port at least druntime to these 
architectures that don't currently ship the D standard libraries 
to allow people to start using, and testing D on their favourite 
non-x86 architecture.

Should be getting access to Debian port boxes pretty soon, but if 
anyone has any hardware running Debian, any donations or ssh 
access would be gladly appreciated.  It would be good to get this 
done by the end of the year.

Lastly, if anyone has ties with other distributions, it would be 
great to see if you can get talking with other distributions - in 
particular, fedora/centos - to see if we can get them to follow 
suit.


As always, the agenda is lets show the world that D2 is both 
portable in implementation, and rox on their hardware. :o)


Regards
Iain.