1.0 ??

[Bill Baxter]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> It's great that there's an open source D compiler, and I applaud the 
>> effort of those folks who have gotten it to where it is.  But it 
>> really should be the MAIN compiler not a sad also-ran huffing and 
>> puffing to keep up.
> 
> There's nothing impeding anyone from submitting the patches to it to 
> keep it up to date. I try pretty hard to make all the updates to the D 
> language in the front end, to make getting it to GDC easier. For the 
> rest, I am available for advice and help in any way I can (although I 
> cannot work on the gnu backend code itself, as I wish to avoid 'taint').

Hmm.  So why isn't the strategy working?
Current GDC is based on 0.162 from June 22.  Over ten releases, 4 
months,  dozens of bug fixes, and at least ten significant features 
behind DMD.

In your estimation, for someone who knows what they are doing, how long 
should it take to update GDC for 'an average DMD release'?  Is the 
problem just that we've been lacking anyone who meets the qualifications 
since July?  Did I miss the good old days when GDC and DMD used to walk 
hand in hand and frolic in the Autumn mist?

--bb