On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 10:13:31PM +0000, Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > We shouldn't bump the required dlang version while knowing that it > will break current distribution packaging. Before bumping the dlang > version to something that would require more than one bootstrap step > from C++, let's make sure that the distributions that we care about > have something set up _already_ that meets the new dlang version > requirement. [...]
Is there currently a viable cross-compiler for D? That would solve, in theory anyway, the bootstrapping problem. I suppose to be truly viable, we'd need dmd to be able to cross-compile, which AFAIK it can't just yet. T -- Fact is stranger than fiction.