GDC subversion project

[Anders F Björklund]

Gabe wrote:

>>If we are extending this beyond the standard library, then the wxWidgets 
>>license is a lot more "popular" than the regular LGPL for same reason...
>>(i.e. that it allows you to link with non-free programs, unlike Qt Free)
> 
> Again, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.  I was planning some work on
> my own, but nobody else has come forward with much in the way of an idea.

Okay, so continue with the current licensing for now then. Sounds good.

>>But that is something to clear with the FSF/GCC guys, and Walter/David ?
> 
> Copyright is irrelavent.  C is copyrighted.  So is Objective-C and C++.  Doesn't
> matter.  We're talking about implementation, not language details.  As long as
> what's written falls under the GPL when it's written, everything's kosher.
> (Hell, C# is copyrighted, but that doesn't stop Mono development.)

Ehm, this was talking about making GDC into a GNU project and having it 
included in the "main" GCC distribution. And for that, the FSF requires 
signing over the copyrights ? Just distributing GDC is not a problem...

>>Sounds good, I should have binaries for GDC 0.17 kicking around here 
>>somwhere. But those are NOT forks, just binary builds of the main...
> 
> Not forks yet, but what about 0.18?  I've contacted David a few times, and he
> hasn't responded yet.  And I know that others have tried as well.  If the word
> 'fork' makes you uncomfortable, then just think of it as an 'extension'.

Just as long as it is "continuing on" rather than "competing with"...

>>I've posted several... (search for "RPM")
>>There's also versions for Gentoo and Debian, but those need maintainers.
> 
> Hence why I didn't see anything when I looked, I guess, because I used to run
> Gentoo and now run Xubuntu.  Also, might want to consider the BSD market, which
> I know nothing about.

The Gentoo ebuilds are in their bug database, but nobody volunteered to 
maintain the package. The RPM spec for RedHat and Fedora can most likely 
be adopted for Debian and Ubuntu (perhaps with "alien" as a quickstart?) 
but someone needs to step up as a volunteer for their official packages.

http://www.algonet.se/~afb/d/gdc.spec (SRPM)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48136

>>In order for it to get back on track, we would most likely need him back 
>>or "handing over" the development to a team. Forking isn't very useful, 
>>it's already being split enough between DMD and GDC development I think.
> 
> Like I said, getting it back on track is the main point.  I was envisioning
> handing over development to a few people here who are actively maintaining
> patches.  If David comes back, great, he can lead us. 

OK, let's continue to make the current two GDC 0.18 builds work then.

I don't have any patches at the moment, except for the changes already 
reported that was needed to "merge" Brad's and Gregor's two releases.
The other issues have been reported upstream, in the DMD bugzilla...

--anders