D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Walter Bright]

On 12/14/2011 3:06 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I'm not suggesting that you would know everything but at least that we could
> agree what we want to do about TLS and dynamic libraries on Mac OS X.
>
> 1. Should we stick with the TLS implementation we have and wait for 10.8
> 1.A. Does this mean 10.6 will not be supported in the future
> 1.B. Will we be able to solve the TLS issues with dynamic libraries with the
> current implementation
>
> 2. Should we try to emulate the 10.7 implementation our self to support 10.6 as
> well and at the same time be forward compatible
>
> I would hope that these are question we could try to figure out and agree upon.

The answer is:

I don't know enough about it to pick the right solution.

In the future, however, I think it is clear we should not be rolling our own 
solution - we should be compatible with whatever gcc does.