Thread overview
Is GDC dead?
Mar 05, 2006
Marcus R. Brown
Mar 05, 2006
Lars Ivar Igesund
Mar 05, 2006
Brad Roberts
Mar 06, 2006
Marcus R. Brown
March 05, 2006
Or on hiatus?  David Friedman's site hasn't been updated since the end of December.  Was the SourceForge page (http://sf.net/projects/dgcc/) ready for use?  I have a bunch of patches for GDC that I'd like to submit.  Where should I send them?


March 05, 2006
Marcus R. Brown wrote:

> Or on hiatus?  David Friedman's site hasn't been updated since the end of
> December.  Was the SourceForge page (http://sf.net/projects/dgcc/) ready
> for
> use?  I have a bunch of patches for GDC that I'd like to submit.  Where
> should I send them?

You might ask Brad Roberts (the one who setup the bugzilla) to help you out
here.
March 05, 2006
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:

> Marcus R. Brown wrote:
> 
> > Or on hiatus?  David Friedman's site hasn't been updated since the end of
> > December.  Was the SourceForge page (http://sf.net/projects/dgcc/) ready
> > for
> > use?  I have a bunch of patches for GDC that I'd like to submit.  Where
> > should I send them?
> 
> You might ask Brad Roberts (the one who setup the bugzilla) to help you out
> here.

I now David is still alive out there as we've exchanged an email or two and chatted a bit one evening.  But he's definitly been distant for a good while now due to life pressure not a real desire to be away from D.

I've spent a lot of time preparing a potential 0.18 release that's based off of dmd 0.148's frontend.  I've also fixed a few other bugs.  There's a couple bugs left to be fixed and a few merge related cleanups that need to be done.  I've sort of been holding on them until I can talk with David again.  He hasn't responded to the last couple emails I've sent.

What sort of patches do you have?  Can you create bugzilla entries for them if they're fixing bugs and add the patches as attachments?  Please be sure to break them down into one bugzilla entry and patch per issue and don't combine them into one.

In case you haven't seen the announcement on digitalmars.D.bugs, the bugzilla db lives here:  http://d.puremagic.com/bugzilla/

Thanks,
Brad
March 06, 2006
Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> I've spent a lot of time preparing a potential 0.18 release that's based off of dmd 0.148's frontend.  I've also fixed a few other bugs.  There's a couple bugs left to be fixed and a few merge related cleanups that need to be done.  I've sort of been holding on them until I can talk with David again.  He hasn't responded to the last couple emails I've sent.
>

This is exciting news.

> What sort of patches do you have?  Can you create bugzilla entries for them if they're fixing bugs and add the patches as attachments?  Please be sure to break them down into one bugzilla entry and patch per issue and don't combine them into one.
>

I have more fixes to Make-lang.in and fixes to impcnvgen.c and idgen.c for cross-compiling (specifically Canadian crosses).  I also have fixes to the autconf machinery, and various fixes to glue code for things like function declarations, etc.  I've created an bugzilla account, so I'll start submitting patches soon.

> In case you haven't seen the announcement on digitalmars.D.bugs, the bugzilla db lives here:  http://d.puremagic.com/bugzilla/
>

Are there still plans for a revision-controlled GDC?  SourceForge has finally gained Subversion support and it would be nice if changes could be tracked there.  I'm becoming more interested in cleaning up some bits of GDC based on the target I've been porting it to.

Thanks for the heads up.

> Thanks,
> Brad