Any plans for gdc (D2) releases?

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 17 11:23:00 PDT 2011


== Quote from Nick Treleaven (nospam at example.net)'s article
> Hi,
> Personally I haven't built GDC but I'm really pleased about the work done
> to support D2, which appears up to date with DMD. I'm wondering are there
> plans to make tarball releases or is GDC not stable enough?
> I think if there were official releases it would be a step towards
> including GDC D2 in distros, which would be amazing to be able to easily
> install a completely open source D2 compiler.
> Thanks,
> Nick

I don't think it's quite stable enough yet.  Progress is definitely being made,
but testing a few libs I wrote on it reveals several showstopper bugs, which I've
filed reports for.  I doubt very many decent-sized projects would compile and pass
unittests with GDC w/o exposing any bugs yet.


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