On Monday, 29 October 2012 at 22:57:41 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Isak Andersson wrote:
Hello D-folks!
I was just wondering if it would be possible to make DMD build
out of the box
for Haiku (haiku-os.org) with the source from the official DMD
repo. Haiku is
pretty darn POSIX compliant so the actual porting isn't much
of a problem. DMD
has ran on Haiku before a while ago and shouldn't have any
problem doing it
now. From what I hear from the Haiku community it was just to
add a bunch of
ifeq Haiku and stuff to make it build and run fine.
What I want though is to get these things in to the main
source of DMD,
applying patches and stuff like that is a pain, it is so much
better to just
be able to clone and build without problems. So what I wanted
to ask is: would
Digital Mars accept a pull request to make DMD build on Haiku
to their main
branch on Github? I just wanted to know for sure before I go
ahead and fork
DMD to do this.
Cheers!
Is someone in the haiku community willing to step up and keep
it working?
Contribute a box to run an auto-tester client?
Unless the answers to both of the above are 'yes', then it's
just about
guaranteed to break again at some point. IMHO, every platform
that wants
to be supported should meet that bar.
Well, I would say that I am pretty willing to do both those
things. At least if I have the knowledge to do it! I'm not a 100%
clear on what the second requirement means. Having a box running
24/7 that can run automated tests at any time? Or just running
the tests occationally (like once or twice a week or so, or even
just in time for every new DMD release)?
