Account on ARM/Debian

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 16 07:04:05 PDT 2012


On 16 October 2012 13:00, Regan Heath <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:31:58 +0100, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/15/2012 10:05 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been talking to Iain Buclaw, gdc's leader, and was surprised to
>>> learn he
>>> has a quite workable ARM port available. To make it production-ready, we
>>> should
>>> have some continuous test integration, which entails ssh access to an
>>> ARM/Debian
>>> account.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone on this list who'd want to donate such an account?
>>
>>
>> It would be pretty cool to run this on a Raspberry Pi! Anyone up to the
>> challenge to build such a system?
>
>
> My Pi arrives on the 22nd and I'd like to give this a go.
>
> Is it just me, or does the Raspberry Pi represent an opportunity for D to
> capture a new generation of new users/programmers.  I would think that
> making D compile for ARM would be a fairly high priority in that case?
>
> I was also thinking, wouldn't it be neat to write an operating system for
> the Pi in in D..  man I wish there were more hours in a day!
>

I don't think we're at that stage yet.  What would be appreciated
would be for testers to report back on any codegen issues.   I should
be able to make GDC ARM binaries available for download.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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