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Walter Bright a écrit :
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> Walter Bright, el 26 de junio a las 12:30 me escribiste:
>>>> Where do you post it, who do you send it to, who is the judge, and
>>>> where is the verdict posted?
>>>> D should try to avoid being like Iran!
>>> Here's one example Robert mentioned: getting D support into the GDB 
>>> main source. That doesn't require anything from me or anyone else. It 
>>> requires someone to doggedly push the changes to the people who 
>>> control GDB.
>>>
>>> It's not a big job - the GDB patches already exist.
>>>
>>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10142
>>>
>>> But it's a high leverage issue, meaning it'll be a big win for D's
>>> acceptance and credibility.
>>
>> I have tried to push the patches on[1], but sadly never got an answer 
>> from
>> the original author. Again, some D-related stuff got abandoned, I don't
>> know, maybe D is damned =/
>>
>> I guess someone has to rewrite those patches to be able to integrate them
>> in GDB (or try harder to find the patches author).
>>
>> [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10142
>>
> 
> 
> The ones less than 10 lines don't need to be rewritten, just the longer 
> ones. It still should be a straightforward job, there isn't that much of 
> it. That's why I suggest it is the ideal project for someone wanting to 
> contribute to D - it's a small project with large positive consequences.

As long as D language is not available on more platforms it will be a 
dead language.
It's a pity that so many people are working on a language that will be 
only studied in compilation course. There something wrong with D 
development and I don't know exactly what. Before working on D 2.0 maybe 
you should work to make D 1.0 working on more targets with ide integration.
First I was very motivated by this new language but I am developper 
specialized in smartphones (wince, symbian, iphone) and I cannot even 
use it on these platforms.
If I was milionnair I would pay someone to work on GDC because this 
would be the first step for notoriety. Two years ago I generated a D 
cross-compiler targeting windows ce but now since gdc is not maitained I 
am not interested anymore in D.
I tried to talk about D language to some gcc hackers but they don't seem 
to be very interested.
I am waiting for new pragmatic projects, for instance I am watching ooc 
projet(http://ooc-lang.org/) that could be a good candidate for what I 
want to do.
So if you don't want D join other dead language at museum, please focus 
on simple things and make it availaible for all platforms.

PS : I don't want to start a war ;-) I am just disappointed that I still 
cannot use it on arm platforms and I am not the only one I think.
By the way what is the status of llvm D ?
And is there any remaining bug in D 1.0 ?