On 6 October 2017 at 22:34, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 17:04:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 6 October 2017 at 17:21, jmh530 via Digitalmars-d >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Friday, 6 October 2017 at 15:04:25 UTC, Joakim wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I assume you mean ddmd and static foreach, the mailing list post linked >>>> from my link implies it includes both. >>> >>> >>> >>> I would think this would be bigger news...I mean LDC isn't even on 2.076 >>> yet... >> >> >> >> Really? Well, maintenance should be rather small now that the patch / >> diff is relatively tiny for GDC. Rebasing only against dmd/stable branch on >> a weekly basis or so should help things along also. > > > A lot of (most, even?) D users ignore GDC because it's been substantially > behind the cutting edge for so long. Managing to catch up and become > relevant to them is big news, if you want users. >
I always assumed it was the license that put people off. ;-) > To clarify: this includes Phobos, right? Phobos is 2.076 as-is. The compiler supports enough of the feature-set, bug and regression fixes to compile the library and pass the testsuite. The switch from C++ to D(DMD) is still in a PR: https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/550 Nothing is really blocking it, but it will go in a separate branch to start off with. Iain.
