DMD back end dev-kit

[Koroskin Denis]

On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:03:32 +0400, John Reimer <terminal.node at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hello Bill,
>
>> It's been talked about before, but exactly how much money do the
>> people who own the copyright to DMD's backend want in order to make it
>> freely available freely -- as at least a lib?  It's hard to believe
>> anyone would appraise that thing with a high dollar value given its
>> less than stellar optimization abilities, and since everyone knows you
>> can't make much money off dev tools these days anyway.
>>  I'd happily chip in $100 US if it meant finally having an official D
>> compiler that anyone can recompile for themselves just by typing "make
>> dmd".
>>  Or is it more a matter of not being able to find the copyright holders
>> in question to ask them?  If so, give us the names and whatever info
>> you have, and I bet someone will be able to track 'em down.
>>  --bb
>>
>
>
> I'd give another $100.
>
> -JJR
>
>

I would donate $100 for that, too.

Not that much for a few man-year project, for we *NEED* that urgently.
Plain old .lib file with stripped-off debug symbols and a dmd-only license  
would do the trick.

Please, Walter!