GDC Project page updated

[Iain Buclaw]

On 9 March 2014 12:26, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:
> Am Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:46:18 +0000
> schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org>:
>
>> On Mar 5, 2014 5:00 PM, "Bruno Medeiros"
>> <brunodomedeiros+dng at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 16/01/2014 16:45, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Updated the GDC Project page with some better information.
>> >>
>> >> http://gdcproject.org
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Also got started on a ProjectIdeas page, as the list of things
>> >> that I'm currently keeping under my umbrella needs to start being
>> >> distributed by anyone who wants to help out with the project.
>> >>
>> >> There's not just development work, so you can help out too!
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/ProjectIdeas
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> Iain.
>> >
>> >
>> > So, are there any plans to update the Windows binary releases?
>> >
>>
>> Someone will have to work out how Daniel built and maintained the
>> Mingw binaries. I'm not so sure that information was documented. :)
>>
>> Regards
>
> https://github.com/venix1/MinGW-GDC
> Building is not the time-consuming part of the mingw port afaics, the
> problem is that binutils, mingw, gmp,... patches need to be maintained
> (or better: upstreamed).
> We should really try to get at least the GDC patches merged though.


I could have a quick review through each to see what is reasonable to
include.  Though for upstream projects, there needs to be a good
explanation of the change and a test for the their testsuite
demonstrating the change.  I'm not sure I'll be able to provide
either.

Regards
Iain