On 11 November 2013 16:14, Dicebot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 15:54:11 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: > >> D will eventually be an official GCC language and in the >> Gentoo tree. That will be how you install GDC in the future. >> We'll have to live with the binary, library and include >> directories it creates. >> > > I actually fear that moment because the way GCC infrastructure works it is > impossible to make language updates within single GCC stack version. So GDC > users will likely just ignore obsolete version packaged with GCC and build > their own. And we will get reports from frustrated newbies "I have > installed gcc-d package from the repo and nothing compiles". > > I like LLVM approach much better in that regard as it allows to define own > versioning/release scheme. >
Nobody makes that complaint about gccgo. So what you are describing is an attitude unique to this community. Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
