LDC2 Status [was: Marketing D]

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-11-01 21:18, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> == Quote from Michel Fortin (michel.fortin at michelf.com)'s article
>> On 2010-11-01 11:02:02 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>  said:
>>> On 11/1/10 3:26 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>> In a month, the GDC project may be in such a position (up to date +
>>>> stable) that I
>>>> will likely do so.
>>>
>>> I wonder what we can do about increasing GDC's exposure. One common
>>> pattern is that people look for GDC, find the defunct version, and
>>> conclude that there's no work on it.
>> Once GDC is current and stable on Mac OS X, I should be able to add it
>> to my D for Xcode installer.
>
> I'm not lavish enough to own one, so I am limited to what I can do there. :~)
>
> I pushed patches for the current apple-gcc (5664) recently. It's based on GCC-4.2,
> so I can imagine no problems with it. Just need someone who can build, test, and
> send feedback on progress.
>
> BTW: How is LDC2 doing? I don't think anyone has mentioned just *where* they are
> in the whole scheme of things.
>
> Iain

If I recall correctly GDC didn't build on Mac OS X. Your patches applied 
successfully but it didn't build. The problem is I could only build GCC 
the Apple way and not the FSF way. If I build it the Apple way the D 
specific code doesn't seem to be recognized.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg