Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Tomas Lindquist Olsen
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Jordan Miner jminer2...@nospam.students.pcci.edu wrote: Walter Bright Wrote: Because gcc on linux predefines linux, not Linux. Please change the version identifier from linux to Linux. I realise I probably did my part to spike this discussion. However,

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Jacob Carlborg
Walter Bright wrote: Jacob Carlborg wrote: They call it Mac OS, then they add a version like this: Mac OS 9. Then when the tenth versions came it happened to be built on a nix base/core (known as darwin) and they also added the X (probably to reflect the new nix base, X is also ten using

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Tomas Lindquist Olsen, el 16 de abril a las 10:46 me escribiste: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Jordan Miner jminer2...@nospam.students.pcci.edu wrote: Walter Bright Wrote: Because gcc on linux predefines linux, not Linux. Please change the version identifier from linux to Linux.

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Walter Bright
Jacob Carlborg wrote: About the darwin vs OSX. There are other operating systems than Mac OS X that could use darwin as the version identifier if someone made a D compiler available. iPhone OS (this is just Mac OS X on the iphone and ipod thouch but it's called iPhone OS) and GNU/Darwin for

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Anders Bergh
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 19:32, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Jacob Carlborg wrote: About the darwin vs OSX. There are other operating systems than Mac OS X that could use darwin as the version identifier if someone made a D compiler available. iPhone OS (this is just Mac OS

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Georg Wrede
Walter Bright wrote: Jacob Carlborg wrote: They call it Mac OS, then they add a version like this: Mac OS 9. Then when the tenth versions came it happened to be built on a nix base/core (known as darwin) and they also added the X (probably to reflect the new nix base, X is also ten using

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Walter Bright
Anders Bergh wrote: You could probably make dmd run on some GNU/Darwin, but it's sort of dead. There's http://www.puredarwin.org/ but I'm not sure if it actually works yet. The iPhone is an ARM platform so dmd would certainly not work there... If dmd/phobos binaries for osx won't work on those

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread BCS
Hello Walter, If dmd/phobos binaries for osx won't work on those machines, then it's appropriate to have a different version identifier. I'd assert the test should be if the systems are source code compatible.

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Frits van Bommel
Walter Bright wrote: Anders Bergh wrote: You could probably make dmd run on some GNU/Darwin, but it's sort of dead. There's http://www.puredarwin.org/ but I'm not sure if it actually works yet. The iPhone is an ARM platform so dmd would certainly not work there... If dmd/phobos binaries for

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Walter Bright
Frits van Bommel wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Anders Bergh wrote: You could probably make dmd run on some GNU/Darwin, but it's sort of dead. There's http://www.puredarwin.org/ but I'm not sure if it actually works yet. The iPhone is an ARM platform so dmd would certainly not work there... If

Re: dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

2009-04-16 Thread Anders Bergh
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:18, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: Anders Bergh wrote: You could probably make dmd run on some GNU/Darwin, but it's sort of dead. There's http://www.puredarwin.org/ but I'm not sure if it actually works yet. The iPhone is an ARM platform so dmd