gdc-4.5 testing

[Anders F Björklund]

bioinfornatics wrote:
> i am a fedora packager i have already push into fedora repo
> ldc,tango,mango,derelict i follow gdc project, for fedora they are a
> problem gdc do not follow gcc upstream and is not yet a part of gcc

It's still possible to install gcc-d as an "add-on" to gcc,
if using the same compiler... One could of course install an
additional version of GCC, but it's smaller if just adding GDC.

For Ubuntu/Debian, GDC is available for the system compiler
so there you can just add D to the GCC Compiler Collection...
Fedora/Redhat could do that too, possibly using a compat gcc ?

> when gcc 4.7 comme into fedora how many time will be to wait for have
> gdc/gcc4.7 ? if gdc build with gcc 4.6 i coud try something but in
> perfect world gdc is a gscc project.

But Fedora 14 is currently running GCC version 4.5, though ?
Or you mean that it _will_ be a problem for new Fedora 15,
once that is released in about 6 month or so. Yeah, probably.

Of course, Fedora could help with porting GDC to 4.6 and on
if they want to include D with their supported languages ?
Even if GDC came *with* GCC, it would still need packaging...

--anders