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

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 22:36:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 10 April 2017 at 23:52, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 20:43:06 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>
>>> Master sports Phobos 2.071.  Someone will have to see whether 
>>> latter versions can be built using it.
>>
>>
>> … and some weird Frankensteinian mix of several frontend 
>> versions, I take it, maybe enough to build Phobos, but not 
>> necessarily compatible for user code? Or did you port all the 
>> changes since 2.068.2 back to C++?
>>
>>  — David
>
> All the regression fixes and none of the bugs!
>
> The current situation is that it should be link-compatible with 
> current upstream/stable.  Enough so that when someone has the 
> time to test, it should just be a case switching the sources 
> and building the D version.

First of all, thank you for your tremendous work on GDC! Fellow 
developers and me were also pretty stunned by you maintaining a 
quite large amount of different GDC versions in parallel without 
a huge team - that's some impressive work!

What is the thing that's blocking GDCs GCC inclusion? Just 
manpower? Also, you were talking about "bugs" on several 
occasions, what's the thing with that? Is it GCC or general 
Phobos bugs? It would probably be awesome to have a summary 
blogpost or similar on the state of GDC, that could potentially 
also attract volunteers.
Anyway, all a bit off-topic :-)