D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-14 19:08, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, sorry, I'm mostly thinking of Mac OS X where PIC is the default.

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/Jacob Carlborg