Tim Matthews wrote:
hasen wrote:
That's not my point though.
I think that the official/reference implementation needs to be
completely open-source.
Because I'm bored I am actually replying to this topic. First how "open"
do you like your source?
1. Open as in all code available? (This is where dmd is now)
2. Open as in gpl? Can derive more work from it if the source code is
still available in the derived work. (This is where dmd front end is.
Possible to re write backend and that is what ldc has done)
3. Open as in bsd license? Can derive work from it close up the new
stuff and sell it. (llvm is actually ncsa license and dang is an attempt
to make a D parser for it in the similar style to what clang did for C/C++)
Once you have decided on your license you can then proceed to choosing
what parts of what project to re write or maybe you just like starting
from scratch anyway.
Finally get the project going stable for a long time then ask for it to
be considered as the reference implementation. You can't just drop dmd's
existence / declare no such reference implementation while everyone runs
around hurrying to build the completely open one.
Who said anything about dropping dmd?
