if just D becomes official part of GCC asap

[Sean Kelly]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Cris wrote:
> 
>> if just D becomes official part of GCC asap...
> 
> There are two problems with this, at the moment.
> 
> 1) In order to be GNU, all copyright should be FSF
>    http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/
> 
> 2) GDC doesn't work with the release series of GCC
>    http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.1/
> 
>> and gets official GDB support...
> 
> Same goes for being an offical part of GDB, I guess.
> 
> But it is possible now to use and package a version
> of GDC that uses a custom GCC/GDB of older releases,
> (including using the older "system" GCC compilers)
> so I don't think it is a major obstacle to using D ?

It might be nice to eventually have a packaged version of GDC available 
in the Debian downloader and other such places.  I have no idea how to 
go about this, but I imagine it can't be terribly difficult?


Sean