The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/10/2017 1:43 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> This is an unfortunate distribution problem, things would be different
> if GCC were more like a library.  It's not like anyone is helping me
> with the push.  I am ultimately the one who is doing the tens of
> thousands of lines of code changes, and writing up the thousands of
> lines of documentation just to make it lean and presentable.  ;-)

Iain, thank you for doing this herculean task all by yourself. I know that you 
need help - anyone want to step up?

I hope that making D fully open source will have a side effect of motivating 
people to help you get gdc into the main gcc distribution.