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[Bruno Medeiros]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Aarti_pl wrote:
>> Bill Baxter pisze:
>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:22 AM, bearophile 
>>> <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
>>>> Bill Baxter:
>>>>> But as a meta-wish I  heartily agree with whoever it was who said the
>>>>> development process needs to be made more open.
>>>> I hope it's not wrong to show this link here:
>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=77168 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> To those more directly involved: Would I be wrong saying the
>>> Phobos/Tango split never would have happened if D had a truly open
>>> development process?  I know Sean wanting to experiment with different
>>> GCs was one reason for it, but if Sean had been able to get access to
>>> the official D runtime to begin with, I suspect he would have designed
>>> his extensions in a way that was more compatible with the existing
>>> code.  Let me know if I'm way off base there.
>>>
>>> --bb
>>
>> I think the same.
>>
>> And similar think can happen in nearest future also. LDC (was LLVMDC) 
>> is approaching release quality very fast. Who will use DMD then, while 
>> you will have better compiler with more bugs fixed than in DMD, better 
>> linker and optimizer and more open people working currently on LDC?
>>
>> This is for D core team to rethink how to cooperate with LDC team, so 
>> that community can get best from resources we have. Maintaining 
>> obsolete back-end by Walter will be loose-loose situation for everyone.
>>
>> It might sound like contradiction but it seems that more openness 
>> gives more control finally.
>>
>> BR
>> Marcin Kuszczak
>> (aarti_pl)
> 
> I hope so, but realistically LDC only works on x86 Linux and there's a 
> lot of work getting it to work on other platforms (much of this work on 
> LLVM itself instead of just LDC).

What do you mean? Are there any significant issues with LLVM itself on 
the Windows platform?

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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