Moving to D

[Travis Boucher]

On 01/06/11 18:30, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:17:50 +0200, Michel Fortin
> <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
>
>> Easy forking is nice, but it could be a problem in our case. The
>> license for the backend is not open-source enough for someone to
>> republish it (in a separate own repo) without Walter's permission.
>
> I suggested elsewhere in this thread that the two must be separated
> first. I think it must be done anyway when moving to a DVCS, regardless
> of the specific one or which hosting site we'd use.
>

I agree, separating out the proprietary stuff has other interesting 
possibilities such as a D front end written in D and integration with 
IDEs and analysis tools.

Of course all of this is possible now, but it'd make merging front end 
updates so much nicer.