D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Walter Bright]

On 12/14/2011 2:49 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2011-12-14 11:29, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/14/2011 2:24 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> I don't know, it's more about in what state D2 and Phobos is and what
>>> changes D1
>>> will get before the support ends. I'm thinking mostly of dynamic
>>> libraries.
>>
>> It's likely D1 and D2 will get dynamic libraries at the same time,
>> because it's mostly a backend issue.
>
> I thought it was mostly a runtime issue. I managed to implement it for Tango
> without any changes to the compiler.

It couldn't be, because there was a serious omission in the -fPIC code 
generation fixed in 2.057.