D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

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On Thursday, 23 October 2014 at 07:09:04 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at 20:06:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 10/6/2014 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985
>>
>> Thank you. This is great progress!
>>
>> I understand the caveats, but can this be put into a shape 
>> where it can be pulled despite being a work in progress? I.e. 
>> have the code be disabled by default? That will help encourage 
>> the community to help out with the gaps.
>
> BTW, why not dub package? GC is pluggable, so can be shipped as 
> a 3rd-party library.

Currently druntime is packaged as part of Phobos library binary 
so I don't see easy way to do it. It could be possible to do the 
replacement at the startup using GC Proxy instrastructure but 
CDGC does not currently support it (though it is not complicated 
to do).