Where is GDC being developed?

James Blachly james.blachly at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 23:05:07 UTC 2019


On 3/21/19 6:51 PM, James Blachly wrote:
> On 3/21/19 6:01 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> On Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 08:19:56 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
>>> At
>>>
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/commits/master
>>>
>>> there's the heading
>>>
>>> "This repository has been archived by the owner. It is now read-only."
>>>
>>> Where will the development of GDC continue?
>>
>> We use https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gcc for CI, but commits 
>> will go to the GCC SVN first, so GCC SVN or snapshot tarballs is the 
>> recommended way to get the latest GDC.
>>
>> There is one exception: When GCC development is in feature freeze, we 
>> might provide newer DMD frontends in a gdc-next branch at 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gcc . However, so far we have not 
>> set up this branch, this will probably happen in the next two weeks. 
>> Maybe I'll also provide DDMD-FE backports for GCC9 in that repo, but 
>> I'm not sure yet. The latest DDMD-FE is somewhere in the archived 
>> repos, but it hasn't been updated for some time.
> 
> Thanks -- I also tried to figure out how to install GDC just yesterday 
> and gave up. All wiki links and google top results seemed dead ends.
> 

A little bit of further information: the downloads listed on

https://gdcproject.org/downloads

are 2016 versions.


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