The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:11:10 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 22:36:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>
>> All the regression fixes and none of the bugs!
>>
>> The current situation is that it should be link-compatible 
>> with current upstream/stable.  Enough so that when someone has 
>> the time to test, it should just be a case switching the 
>> sources and building the D version.
>
> First of all, thank you for your tremendous work on GDC! Fellow 
> developers and me were also pretty stunned by you maintaining a 
> quite large amount of different GDC versions in parallel 
> without a huge team - that's some impressive work!
>
> What is the thing that's blocking GDCs GCC inclusion? Just 
> manpower? Also, you were talking about "bugs" on several 
> occasions, what's the thing with that? Is it GCC or general 
> Phobos bugs? It would probably be awesome to have a summary 
> blogpost or similar on the state of GDC, that could potentially 
> also attract volunteers.
> Anyway, all a bit off-topic :-)

I assume the bugs would be DMDFE bugs.

Iain is giving  talk at DConf on GDC 
(http://dconf.org/2017/talks/buclaw.html) which should help.