On 5 July 2012 00:19, Jonathan Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 at 11:18:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 4 July 2012 11:52, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 2012-07-04 02:34, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 00:42:22 Iain Buclaw wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just so long as it isn't Gentoo. :o) >>>>> >>>>> Afterall, out of all of the linux distros out there, I would say that >>>>> gentoo takes the least time to mess around... </sarcasm> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> LOL. I did use Gentoo for a while, but I got sick of things breaking on >>>> updates. Arch provides most of the benefits that Gentoo does but >>>> defaults >>>> to >>>> binary packages while letting you build them from source if you want to >>>> rather >>>> than making _everything_ be built from source. And surprisingly, Arch >>>> seems to >>>> do a better job of providing bleeding edge packages quickly than Gentoo >>>> does >>>> (at least for the packages that I care about). >>>> >>>> But Linux distros are one of those things that you can argue about >>>> endlessly. >>>> To each their own I guess. >>> >>> >>> >>> I agree. I tried LFS and then added portage, which basically made it into >>> Gentoo. I general I like the idea about Gentoo but it just takes too much >>> time. These days I'm staying away from Gentoo and using Ubuntu when I'm >>> using Linux. But we all know that the best Unix-like system is Mac OS X >>> :) >>> >> >> Another platform that we need to start testing extensively with GDC. :-) >> >> Anyone willing to jump onboard? > > > I'll bite - I'm getting my feet wet again after being away from programming > for a long absence, but I'd love to help out if I can. > > I'm more of a Linux guy than an OSX man, but since my wife insists on using > FaceTime to chat with me while we are apart, I'm stuck here in Apple-land! > What can I do?
I've made a gdc-4.7 branch to whom's sources will be used for the packaging of gdc-4.7 and porting. https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-4.7 Let us know if anyone hits any issues building and I'll try to help out best I can. -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
