Walter Bright, el 27 de junio a las 19:25 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >I think it would be great if LDC is listed in the D official website, GDC is listed for example and it's way too obsolete. I think that can give the impression that there is no working updated compiler other than DMD.
> 
> 
> Sure. What url do you want me to use? Better yet, send me the text & link.

Well, I'm not an LDC developer, but I think the project URL would be fine: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc

And for the text, I think you can take it from there too, depending on how much text you want to include you can use a paragraph or more.

I'll wait a tittle to see if some LDC developer say what they think it's best, and if nobody answer just put that link and the first wiki paragraph. That would be better than nothing =)

Thanks.

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Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 27 de junio a las 19:25 me escribiste:
>> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> >I think it would be great if LDC is listed in the D official website, GDC is listed for example and it's way too obsolete. I think that can give the impression that there is no working updated compiler other than DMD.
>> 
>> 
>> Sure. What url do you want me to use? Better yet, send me the text & link.
> 
> Well, I'm not an LDC developer, but I think the project URL would be fine: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc

Yes, that's the right link.

Text: maybe change

There are currently two implementations, the Digital Mars DMD package for Win32 and x86 Linux, and the GCC D Compiler package for several platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X.

to

There are currently three implementations: Digital Mars DMD (D version 1 and 2), the LLVM D Compiler (D version 1 only) and the GCC D Compiler (D 1.030 and 2.014 only).


This is a controversial change as the front page doesn't mention the D1/D2 split at the moment. I felt it reasonable to mention the frontend versions of GDC since they're one year old and it doesn't change often.

I dropped the platform listing for each compiler as DMD now supports Win32, x86 Linux, x86 Mac OSX and x86 FreeBSD, and spelling it out made the text hard to read.

Also add 'LDC D Compiler' to the 'Tools' section of the navigation bar and to the download page. As we only have binary packages for x86-32 and x86-64, please only list these two platforms as 'supported by LDC'.

Christian Kamm wrote:
> Also add 'LDC D Compiler' to the 'Tools' section of the navigation bar and to the download page. As we only have binary packages for x86-32 and x86-64, please only list these two platforms as 'supported by LDC'.

What urls for the downloads?

Walter Bright:
> What urls for the downloads?

LDC compiler is getting very good (D1, on Linux, with Tango), I suggest you to try it if you haven't yet.

The home page:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc

Downloads: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc/wiki/Release_0.9.1

Soon the daily builds for Ubuntu will work again: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc/wiki/BuildInstructionsUbuntu

DStress results  seem to show that for x86-32 Linux LDC is similar or sometimes better than DMD (but DMD compiles quite faster, I don't know why):
http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/tests/index.html

Code compiled by LDC is often almost as efficient as C++ code compiled with g++, so LDC is a good hope for the spreading of D1 among C++ programmers that look for an efficient language.

Bye,
bearophile

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:23 PM, bearophile<bearophileHUGS@lycos.com> wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> What urls for the downloads?
>
> LDC compiler is getting very good (D1, on Linux, with Tango), I suggest you to try it if you haven't yet.

Silly bear, Walter won't look at it because it uses Tango!

Walter Bright wrote:

> Christian Kamm wrote:
>> Also add 'LDC D Compiler' to the 'Tools' section of the navigation bar and to the download page. As we only have binary packages for x86-32 and x86-64, please only list these two platforms as 'supported by LDC'.
> 
> What urls for the downloads?

Ooh, a front page update!

I think it would be easiest if you just link to our front page. That way the link will never get stale. (also, we don't yet have a downloads page)

Thanks!

Christian Kamm wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Christian Kamm wrote:
>>> Also add 'LDC D Compiler' to the 'Tools' section of the navigation bar
>>> and to the download page. As we only have binary packages for x86-32 and
>>> x86-64, please only list these two platforms as 'supported by LDC'.
>> What urls for the downloads?
> 
> Ooh, a front page update!
> 
> I think it would be easiest if you just link to our front page. That way the link will never get stale. (also, we don't yet have a downloads page)

I noticed that there was no download page referenced from the LDC home page. This needs to get fixed ASAP!

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:12:34 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> I'd like to know what you think on each of these matters, and hopefully inspire us to take some action to make sure D succeeds.
> 
> Pick one of the items you find the most interesting, and work on it!

I've picked the docs. I'm attempting to remove all hardcoded HTML tags from the .dd files. To what address do I send the updated files?

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Reply to Derek,

> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:12:34 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd like to know what you think on each of these matters, and
>>> hopefully inspire us to take some action to make sure D succeeds.
>>> 
>> Pick one of the items you find the most interesting, and work on it!
>> 
> I've picked the docs. I'm attempting to remove all hardcoded HTML tags
> from the .dd files. To what address do I send the updated files?
> 

I'd e-mail patches to Walter or attach them to an issue in the issue tracker. Either way make sure Walter knows about them. 

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:08:02 +0000 (UTC), BCS wrote:

> Reply to Derek,
> 
>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:12:34 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 
>>> Robert Clipsham wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'd like to know what you think on each of these matters, and hopefully inspire us to take some action to make sure D succeeds.
>>>> 
>>> Pick one of the items you find the most interesting, and work on it!
>>> 
>> I've picked the docs. I'm attempting to remove all hardcoded HTML tags from the .dd files. To what address do I send the updated files?
>> 
> 
> I'd e-mail patches to Walter or attach them to an issue in the issue tracker. Either way make sure Walter knows about them.

I've tried (twice) to email them to newshound1@digitalmars.com but have not receive any acknowledgement that they have been received so I don't actually know if Mr B is getting them.

What I'd like is Walter to tell me/us where to send such things. I've scanned the website for information but can't find anything there.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell