Free the DMD backend

Eugene Wissner via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 31 18:26:53 PDT 2016


On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 20:12:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 10:09 +0000, Atila Neves via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> […]
>> 
>> No, no, no, no. We had LDC be the default already on Arch 
>> Linux for a while and it was a royal pain. I want to choose to 
>> use LDC when and if I need performance. Otherwise, I want my 
>> projects to compile as fast possible and be able to use all 
>> the shiny new features.
>
> So write a new backend for DMD the licence of which allows DMD 
> to be in Debian and Fedora.

LDC shouldn't be the default compiler to be included in Debian or 
Fedora. Reference compiler and the default D compiler in a 
particular distribution are two independent things.


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