GDC with later DMD's

[Gregor Richards]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> PS: Anders: Once I get back to 156, I'll integrate your patches.
>> Don't want to make the increments too complicated, sorry :)
> 
> 
> Not a problem, so far they all apply equally well to DMD and GDC.
> (there are just three, one to "mars.h" and two to Phobos modules)
> 
> I will probably just build and test for Mac, not develop anything.
> At least not until Mac OS X 10.5, which is likely to have GCC 4.1...

Nice to know it'll work on Mac at all ;)

> 
> 
> Beyond the earlier mentioned Linux-PowerPC (and possibly X64 too???)
> support, the most needed items for GDC are: DMD 0.156 and GCC 4.1.0

Seems to me like DMD 0.156 is by far the more important issue.  GCC 
4.1.0 can wait :)

> 
> Well, that and the non-technical parts such as finalizing the name
> and packaging up for end-users and writing a new home page and docs.

"GCC D Compiler" forever ^^
And hopefully no new homepage will be necessary, since David will 
reappear and get things back on track.  Optimism is awesome 8-D

> 
> --anders
> 
> PS.
> Supporting 64-bit might have to wait until DMD does too, I suppose.
> Since the new Intel Macs are only 32-bit, it's not *my* big concern :-)

  - Gregor Richards