My worst kept secret is out.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> My worst kept secret is out.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA
>

:D x 1000

On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 03:50:35 Iain Buclaw wrote:
> My worst kept secret is out.
> 
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA

*Sigh* They gave the link to the old site rather than the d-programming- language.org, and since www.digitialmars.com only redirects on the main page, the link doesn't get redirected to the correct place.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com>wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 03:50:35 Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > My worst kept secret is out.
> >
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA
>
> *Sigh* They gave the link to the old site rather than the d-programming-
> language.org, and since www.digitialmars.com only redirects on the main
> page,
> the link doesn't get redirected to the correct place.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>


Walter said he would fix this: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Why_I_m_hesitating_to_switch_to_D_139517.html#N139559

On 2011-10-05 05:50, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> My worst kept secret is out.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA

This is great news.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 10/4/2011 11:50 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> My worst kept secret is out.
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA

Awesome!  Two things, though:

1.  When will this actually happen?  Is GCC 4.7 going to have GDC in it?

2.  How will the impedance mismatch between DMD Front End's fast release cycle and GCC's slower release cycle be handled?  I'm definitely not going to use the "official" version of GDC packaged with my Linux distro or MinGW or whatever when the front end is several versions out of date and each front end update contains major bug fixes and additions to Phobos.

== Quote from dsimcha (dsimcha@yahoo.com)'s article
> On 10/4/2011 11:50 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > My worst kept secret is out.
> >
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA
> Awesome!  Two things, though:
> 1.  When will this actually happen?  Is GCC 4.7 going to have GDC in it?

Can't say. Hopefully things will be in before the 4.7 development window closes.

> 2.  How will the impedance mismatch between DMD Front End's fast release
> cycle and GCC's slower release cycle be handled?  I'm definitely not
> going to use the "official" version of GDC packaged with my Linux distro
> or MinGW or whatever when the front end is several versions out of date
> and each front end update contains major bug fixes and additions to Phobos.

I would imagine that the official releases would be 1 frontend version behind DMD - given that there is a 2 month period of bug-fixes only before release. Whilst the development trunk/snapshots will remain in sync.

Again, can't really say - it's too soon to be asking this. :~)


Regards
Iain

Why not just write a redirect rule from the old D pages to the new ones?

On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 05, 2011 03:50:35 Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> My worst kept secret is out.
>> 
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTk2NA
> 
> *Sigh* They gave the link to the old site rather than the d-programming- language.org, and since www.digitialmars.com only redirects on the main page, the link doesn't get redirected to the correct place.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

"dsimcha" <dsimcha@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:j6hkec$7lb$1@digitalmars.com...
>
> 2.  How will the impedance mismatch between DMD Front End's fast release cycle and GCC's slower release cycle be handled?  I'm definitely not going to use the "official" version of GDC packaged with my Linux distro or MinGW or whatever when the front end is several versions out of date and each front end update contains major bug fixes and additions to Phobos.

Even if this is an issue at first, I'd bet it will become less and less significant as DMD/Phobos improve and solidify.

Maybe if this was posted on Reddit it would get some vocal support and give the GNU guys reassurance that D is a sought-after language.

Anyway this is great news! Congrats to Iain Buclaw and anyone else who helped.