Fedora 14 will integrate D into the distribution

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 29 10:04:10 PDT 2010


== Quote from Daniel Gibson (metalcaedes at gmail.com)'s article
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > As far as I'm aware, they won't accept it because the latest release of GCC it
> > works against is 4.4.x. Fedora ships 4.5.x, and will be moving onto the 4.6.x
> > devel snapshot in a few months.
> >
> > The Pascal compiler has a similar problem too...
> >
> > Iain
> >
> What a pity. Are there plans for porting gdc to GCC 4.5 or 4.6?
> IIRC there were discussions about including a D compiler (possibly
> GDC) into GCC - what's the status of that?
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

I have a local copy of a 4.5.x tree with gdc inside, but the compiler cannot
*build* any sources just yet. And besides, that has been left stale as other areas
are being tended to.

Currently doing a marathon sprint to merge D2 frontend with 2.025 by the end of
the month, or within the first week of next month, depending on how many things
get broken in the process...

Iain


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