One more question - an untapped audience.

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Thu Feb 20 00:30:15 PST 2014


On Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 03:11:17 UTC, Daniel Murphy 
wrote:
> "Bruno Medeiros"  wrote in message 
> news:le2s5q$2i0u$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> I think DMD will get there eventually, but... you think it 
>> will come as soon as the DMD 2.066 release already?? As in, 
>> the official DMD, not a fork. Walter and Andrei have said they 
>> are on board with that?
>
> The exact details of the switch need to be worked out, but 
> Walter and Andrei are on board.  We're looking at at least a 
> couple of months until the next release, which should be plenty 
> of time to finalize this.  No guarantees of course, we all 
> still have to agree on a way to do it.
>
>> Also, Ian raises a good point, what will happen to GDC and LDC 
>> once that switch happens? They are both very important 
>> projects to be left hanging in the rain.
>
> The switch will only happen once all three compilers are ready.
>  Automatic conversion will let us test and release official D 
> versions of DMD in parallel without the sources getting out of 
> sync.

Congratulations on the work achieved thus far. :)


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