Criteria for 1.0 (was: Re: If D becomes a failure, what's the key reason, do you think?)

[Walter Bright]

Kirk McDonald wrote:
> Here's something that has been annoying me, and this week-old thread is 
> as good a place as any to bring it up: Shared library support on Linux. 
> I could not take D seriously if it did a "1.0" release without this. I 
> do hate to cram more on your plate, Walter, but I consider this a more 
> serious issue than even this import thing that has gripped the newsgroup 
> for the past week.

I know about the shared library issue on Linux. And to tell the truth, 
I've been procrastinating on it. The big job, -fPIC, is done. I don't 
know how much beyond that needs to be done.

Will the shared libraries work with GDC?