Gregor Richards wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> So what's up with GDC these days?  Haven't seen any releases in a while.
>> I'm trying to build mingw version from SVN now.
>> Thinking of putting up periodic snapshots if I can manage that.
>> Might be interested in helping keep up to date with DMD in other ways if
>> I can help.
>> 
>> I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who could offer a little time here and there to help maintain web-pages and tarballs for up-to-date GDC releases.   So let's do it!
>> 
>> --bb
> 
> When I first started using GDC, I thought it was dead. Then, six months later, it sprung back to life, and was fairly active up until r199.
> 
> David has a busy life. If he doesn't have time for GDC right now, that's too bad for us, but it's his right to work on it when and only when he feels like it. It's not like we're paying him.
> 
>   - Gregor Richards

Sure, but it would be pretty cool if _several_ people could work on it and have the project see commits even when David is busy. It's not as if there is nothing to do.

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Gregor Richards wrote:
> When I first started using GDC, I thought it was dead. Then, six months later, it sprung back to life, and was fairly active up until r199.
> 
> David has a busy life. If he doesn't have time for GDC right now, that's too bad for us, but it's his right to work on it when and only when he feels like it. It's not like we're paying him.

Nobody is complaining about David Friedman's work on GDC. The opposite is the case. This discussion is about whether it is worthwhile for others to join his greatly appreciated effort to make it even more useful by updating it more often. Since GDC is licensed under the GPL, David obviously encourages such considerations.

Jascha Wetzel wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> When I first started using GDC, I thought it was dead. Then, six months later, it sprung back to life, and was fairly active up until r199.
>>
>> David has a busy life. If he doesn't have time for GDC right now, that's too bad for us, but it's his right to work on it when and only when he feels like it. It's not like we're paying him.
> 
> Nobody is complaining about David Friedman's work on GDC. The opposite is the case. This discussion is about whether it is worthwhile for others to join his greatly appreciated effort to make it even more useful by updating it more often. Since GDC is licensed under the GPL, David obviously encourages such considerations.

Exactly.  How can we help Dave?  That's what I'm saying.

--bb

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Jascha Wetzel wrote:
> > Gregor Richards wrote:
> >> When I first started using GDC, I thought it was dead. Then, six months later, it sprung back to life, and was fairly active up until r199.
> >>
> >> David has a busy life. If he doesn't have time for GDC right now, that's too bad for us, but it's his right to work on it when and only when he feels like it. It's not like we're paying him.
> > 
> > Nobody is complaining about David Friedman's work on GDC. The opposite is the case. This discussion is about whether it is worthwhile for others to join his greatly appreciated effort to make it even more useful by updating it more often. Since GDC is licensed under the GPL, David obviously encourages such considerations.
> 
> Exactly.  How can we help Dave?  That's what I'm saying.
> 
> --bb

I'll be happy to help.  I've been perusing the code recently just so I can contribute.

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:59:27 +0100, Jascha Wetzel wrote:

> Alessandro Pellizzari wrote:
>> Il Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:20:26 +0100, Jascha Wetzel ha scritto:
>> 
>>> i've been using GDC on linux 64bit for quite a while now and i only came across a single, typeinfo/linking related problem. besides that it works great.
>> 
>> Did you manage to compile gtkd with gdc? I tried the best I could but it only compiles with the latest versions of dmd 1 and dsss... :/
>> 
>> I know of a patch to gtkd to compile it with gdc, but I read that it still segfaults.
> 
> no, haven't tried. the only libs i've been using with GDC so far are Tango and Phobos.

I got gtkD to compile and run under GDC, I didn't really run into any segfaulting issues but I repeatedly got an error about FileChooserDialog linking.

After reading this thread I decided to test with dmd, and indeed, it works.  Fooey.

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:08:47 +0000, Scott S. McCoy wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:59:27 +0100, Jascha Wetzel wrote:
> 
>> Alessandro Pellizzari wrote:
>>> Il Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:20:26 +0100, Jascha Wetzel ha scritto:
>>> 
>>>> i've been using GDC on linux 64bit for quite a while now and i only came across a single, typeinfo/linking related problem. besides that it works great.
>>> 
>>> Did you manage to compile gtkd with gdc? I tried the best I could but it only compiles with the latest versions of dmd 1 and dsss... :/
>>> 
>>> I know of a patch to gtkd to compile it with gdc, but I read that it still segfaults.
>> 
>> no, haven't tried. the only libs i've been using with GDC so far are Tango and Phobos.
> 
> I got gtkD to compile and run under GDC, I didn't really run into any segfaulting issues but I repeatedly got an error about FileChooserDialog linking.
> 
> After reading this thread I decided to test with dmd, and indeed, it works.  Fooey.

For the glade test actually, I've found I can build gtkD with gdc, then build the glade test with dmd, and it works.  However if I try to build both the glade test and gtkD with gdc, it fails.  (Similarly, building both with dmd works as expected).

Seems curious, to say the least.  I'm pretty ready to blame it on GDC.

Cheers,
    Scott S. McCoy