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D.gnu - Is GDC dead?

reply "Marcus R. Brown" <mrbrown budcat.com> writes:
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?
Mar 05 2006
parent reply Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:
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.
Mar 05 2006
parent reply Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> writes:
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
Mar 05 2006
parent "Marcus R. Brown" <mrbrown budcat.com> writes:
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
Mar 05 2006