Fedora 14 will integrate D into the distribution

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-09-29 13:02, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:54:02 -0400, Daniel Gibson
> <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> IIRC, In order for that to happen, Walter would have to assign the
> copyright for the front end to GNU, not likely...
>
> -Steve

Wasn't there talk about forking the DMD front end and assign the 
copyright of the fork to GNU, if I recall correctly. Then DMD and the 
fork would continue to evolve on their own.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg