Hi guys,

Today i received a very good mail which stated that what we are doing in developing gdc is appreciated.

The mail is from Tomasz Stachewicz, the developer of RuDy project to enable and ease writing Ruby native extensions in D programming language.

After congratulating for the work we are doing, he stated something new: "Is there a book wishlist or donation account I could use to word my appreciation in a more material way?"

If i'm not wrong (sorry i'm not a native English speaker), he is asking for an account for a donation. I think that maybe he is not the only one which wants to give some founds to the gdc project...

Well... If everybody agrees (well for now me, Michael and David
Friedman, the ones which did work for gdc) i can get this moneys with
paypal (or with one of the pay-for-feature websites). Moneys will be
reserved to develop gdc in a issue/task basis (for porting gdc to
lastest gcc you take X, for updating to dmd version Y you take Z and
so on)
Of course i don't think that gdc is so famous to make a lot of people
contribute to it, but i think that we should decide about this issue
to allow people to support the gdc project.

See you.

-- 
Vincenzo Ampolo (goshawk)

http://goshawknest.wordpress.com

Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:

> If i'm not wrong (sorry i'm not a native English speaker), he is asking for an account for a donation. I think that maybe he is not the only one which wants to give some founds to the gdc project...
> 
> Well... If everybody agrees (well for now me, Michael and David Friedman, the ones which did work for gdc) i can get this moneys with paypal (or with one of the pay-for-feature websites). Moneys will be reserved to develop gdc in a issue/task basis (for porting gdc to lastest gcc you take X, for updating to dmd version Y you take Z and so on)

Has Arthur Loiret left the project ? He was doing
the debian/ubuntu packages and lots of porting to
GCC 4.2 and later versions, and some updating of
GDC as well - I think it was up to r209/2008-03-12 ?

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gdc-4.1
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gdc-4.2
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gdc-4.1
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gdc-4.2


I updated my packages to r229/2008-06-01 for Tango,
so that they are the same as DMD 1.030 "stable".
I could rebuild them for DMD 1.050 "latest" as well,
if you get the GDC project restarted and released...

http://gdcmac.sourceforge.net/ (Mac OS X / Apple GCC)
http://gdcwin.sourceforge.net/ (Windows / MinGW GCC)
http://gdcgnu.sourceforge.net/ (GNU/Linux / FSF GCC)
But I don't think I'll do any D2 or 64-bit either...

--anders

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Has Arthur Loiret left the project ? He was doing
> the debian/ubuntu packages and lots of porting to
> GCC 4.2 and later versions, and some updating of
> GDC as well - I think it was up to r209/2008-03-12 ?

Hi.
I dunno about Arthur, i don't see him online on IRC from a while...
BTW Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> had mailed me, Arthur and some
people from the gdc team to ask to update the package.

We already planned to do it when we will reach gcc 4.4 (we are at gcc 4.3.4 actually).

Actually the version in the repository is able to compile d 1.039 and 2.015. I've tested the d2 version on 64 bit and it works. I didn't test any compatibility with tango for now...

-- 
Vincenzo Ampolo (goshawk)

http://goshawknest.wordpress.com

Vincenzo Ampolo дµ½:

> Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 
> > Has Arthur Loiret left the project ? He was doing
> > the debian/ubuntu packages and lots of porting to
> > GCC 4.2 and later versions, and some updating of
> > GDC as well - I think it was up to r209/2008-03-12 ?
> 
> Hi.
> I dunno about Arthur, i don't see him online on IRC from a while...
> BTW Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> had mailed me, Arthur and some
> people from the gdc team to ask to update the package.
> 
> We already planned to do it when we will reach gcc 4.4 (we are at gcc 4.3.4 actually).

thank you very much !

The gdc has how much bug now ? sorry.

dolive

> 
> Actually the version in the repository is able to compile d 1.039 and 2.015. I've tested the d2 version on 64 bit and it works. I didn't test any compatibility with tango for now...
> 
> -- 
> Vincenzo Ampolo (goshawk)
> 
> http://goshawknest.wordpress.com

Vincenzo Ampolo Wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> Today i received a very good mail which stated that what we are doing in developing gdc is appreciated.
> 
> The mail is from Tomasz Stachewicz, the developer of RuDy project to enable and ease writing Ruby native extensions in D programming language.
> 
> After congratulating for the work we are doing, he stated something new: "Is there a book wishlist or donation account I could use to word my appreciation in a more material way?"
> 
> If i'm not wrong (sorry i'm not a native English speaker), he is asking for an account for a donation. I think that maybe he is not the only one which wants to give some founds to the gdc project...
> 
> Well... If everybody agrees (well for now me, Michael and David
> Friedman, the ones which did work for gdc) i can get this moneys with
> paypal (or with one of the pay-for-feature websites). Moneys will be
> reserved to develop gdc in a issue/task basis (for porting gdc to
> lastest gcc you take X, for updating to dmd version Y you take Z and
> so on)
> Of course i don't think that gdc is so famous to make a lot of people
> contribute to it, but i think that we should decide about this issue
> to allow people to support the gdc project.
> 
> See you.
> 
> -- 
> Vincenzo Ampolo (goshawk)
> 
> http://goshawknest.wordpress.com

I'm not really all that interested in working for money. Written support is enough for me. :)

I am definitely going to donate into the GDC project if it continues support for D2 specification.