On 06/12/13 16:37, Daniel Murphy wrote:
It's going very slowly. There have been a few pulls working on some areas, but most of my effort has been on the d port. The frontend unification does not depend on the D port, and the D port is not technically blocked by it, but we will need to finish it before abandoning the C++ version of the frontend.
OK, clear. It's kind of what I'd expected; I'm glad to see that it's planned as a precursor to the D transition rather than something to take place as part of it.
I'd love to give a timeframe, but I don't have that much control over it. A fairly important step is currently blocked because Walter is sitting on a pull request. (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/2754)
That's a shame though I guess somewhat inevitable given that we're talking about quite significant changes.
Is there a documented TODO list anywhere? And is there anything that those of us not contributing frontend code can do to help? (No, not spamming Walter with "Please look at Pull Request 2754!" messages:-)
