On 9 July 2013 10:40, Temtaime <temtaime@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why there is no GDC releases? It prevents many from using GDC.

No it doesn't, stop lying.  (Where's my sartalic formatting when I need it)

As per documentation:

The D language is under development as of this writing; see {current
language reference}.  At present the current major version of D is
2.0, and
there is no way to describe the language supported by GCC in terms of
a specific minor version.  In general GCC follows the D front-end
releases closely, and any given GCC release will support the current
language as of the date that the release was frozen.

So the 4.7, 4.8 branches present on github are considered releases, but no binary distribution is done other than through eg: Linux distributor repositories.

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Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

On 5 July 2013 22:32, Johannes Pfau <nospam@example.com> wrote:
> Am Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:45:42 +0200
> schrieb "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com>:
>
>> Unless Vladimir possibly gives us access to dlang's wiki to post the documentation content there.  I've opened up a new wiki page for people to contribute to.
>>
>> http://wiki.gdcproject.org
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Iain.
>
> I moved the main page contents to
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC
>
> So should we use wiki.dlang.org as our main wiki?

Feel free, I'll take down the wiki then once it has all been moved across.


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Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

Sorry, but i meant binary releases, of course, for windows, for example.

On 07/09/2013 12:29 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> As per documentation:
> 
> The D language is under development as of this writing; see {current
> language reference}.  At present the current major version of D is
> 2.0, and
> there is no way to describe the language supported by GCC in terms of
> a specific minor version.  In general GCC follows the D front-end
> releases closely, and any given GCC release will support the current
> language as of the date that the release was frozen.
> 
> So the 4.7, 4.8 branches present on github are considered releases, but no binary distribution is done other than through eg: Linux distributor repositories.

I think what he means is: why are there no easily downloadable .tar.gz files where all you have to do is ./configure && make && make install ?

Or, better still, 1-click installers for different major platforms as we have with DMD.

I know this is one of those "needs someone to step up to the plate" situations, but I think it's true that this would be helpful for potential users of GDC.

GDC sources can't compile the code. :)
And it's sometimes harder to build GDC from sources, i don't want to have that headache.