Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-02-01 Thread Dicebot
On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 18:54:53 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: For any Arch Linux (and thus Manjaro) package there is a matching entry in SVN repository with build script. Thanks again, I'm building it right now. So far everything seems to work ok. I've adde

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-02-01 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: > For any Arch Linux > (and thus Manjaro) package there is a matching entry in SVN > repository with build script. Thanks again, I'm building it right now. So far everything seems to work ok. I've added your instructions to the wiki: http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Installat

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-02-01 Thread Iain Buclaw
On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 16:37:33 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 16:20:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This information should go in a prominent place on the gdc website or wiki. Iain? It seems some of my posts from gmail didn't go through to the forums,

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-02-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/31/14, 3:10 PM, ed wrote: On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 21:56:16 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: At any time you can just download those, make any changes you need and run `makepkg`. Or just use build() function from PKGBUILD as a base for your own build script. T

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-02-01 Thread Iain Buclaw
On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 16:20:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/31/14, 3:10 PM, ed wrote: On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 21:56:16 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: At any time you can just download those, make any changes you need and run `makepkg`. Or just u

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-02-01 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 16:20:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: This information should go in a prominent place on the gdc website or wiki. Iain? It seems some of my posts from gmail didn't go through to the forums, argh. Anyway, I've added this instruction: http://wiki.dlang.org/GD

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/31/14, 12:44 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 31 January 2014 01:39, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Who's that guy and what code did he write? If no response, let's redo his work. We should not be afraid of it. David Friedman, I'm in direct contact with him and give both him and Donald (the FSF as

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread ed
On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 21:56:16 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: At any time you can just download those, make any changes you need and run `makepkg`. Or just use build() function from PKGBUILD as a base for your own build script. This is great, I could start hack

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/31/14, 9:40 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrej, could you please file two issues under bugzilla with the respective tags ldc and gdc? I'll see if I can place bounties on them. That's a great idea! Here we go: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: > At any time you can just download those, make any changes you > need and run `makepkg`. Or just use build() function from > PKGBUILD as a base for your own build script. This is great, I could start hacking on GDC then. Perfect, thanks!

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Dicebot
On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 19:43:22 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Right, I need something to build the source with after I modify the source. Git-head, and all that. Prebuilt binaries are of no use. :) No, I did not mean to _use_ prebuilt binaries. For any Arch Linux (and thus Manjaro) packa

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 31 January 2014 01:39, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 1/30/14 4:13 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> On March 22, 2014, GDC will turn 10! \o/ >> >> This is a great landmark achievement in brevity for GDC, but we still >> haven't achieved in my personal opinion any levity of worthy not

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/31/14, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: > After that I installed Mint on another VM, in about 5 minutes. It > booted with no troubles. This is getting OT, but Manjaro worked for me, which is Arch Based. Unlike Arch it has a GUI installer which is really simple to use, and it installed in a few minute

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 19:43:22 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: I think he may have meant that as Arch Linux has gdc package available, such simple script exists - it is a package build script which is publicly available. But it is for 4.8 gcc branch so does not

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/31/14, Dicebot wrote: > I think he may have meant that as Arch Linux has gdc package > available, such simple script exists - it is a package build > script which is publicly available. But it is for 4.8 gcc branch > so does not really help much :( Right, I need something to build the source

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Dicebot
On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 17:28:41 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: I am going to hazard a guess that you are not an Arch Linux fan I like configurability, a lot, but when I want to contribute to something I may not be interested in all the interesting choi

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/31/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Andrej, could you please file two issues under bugzilla > with the respective tags ldc and gdc? I'll see if I can place bounties > on them. That's a great idea! Here we go: https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12048 https://d.puremagic.com/issue

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/31/14, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: > I am going to hazard a guess that you are not an Arch Linux fan I like configurability, a lot, but when I want to contribute to something I may not be interested in all the interesting choices I'm forced to make beforehand. I just want to get from point A to

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/31/14, 7:16 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * Ask the community for help NOT on a large matter. The way I see it both the GDC and LDC projects suffer from a difficult barrier to entry for anyone new to the compilers. For example, to build either of the c

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
On Friday, 31 January 2014 at 15:17:13 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 1/31/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * Ask the community for help NOT on a large matter. The way I see it both the GDC and LDC projects suffer from a difficult barrier to entry for anyone new to the compilers. For example,

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Dejan Lekic
Long ago I had a shell script that cross-compiles GCC with included GDC for Windows (MinGW). Meanwhile so many MinGW based projects appeared and I had impression that one of them has GDC bundled. Am I wrong? Building everything should not be _that_ difficult I believe.

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/31/14, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > * Ask the community for help NOT on a large matter. The way I see it both the GDC and LDC projects suffer from a difficult barrier to entry for anyone new to the compilers. For example, to build either of the compilers you need to go through a massive list

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-31 Thread Dejan Lekic
All I can say is this: GDC for me as a D developer, is invaluable. Yes I use DMD and LDC, but GCC is something I have on all machines by default. I can't wait for GDC to be inside the GCC source tree. THAT is going to be a historical moment for D community. Keep up with the good work!

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-30 Thread Walter Bright
On 1/30/2014 5:39 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/30/14 4:13 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: On March 22, 2014, GDC will turn 10! \o/ Congratulations! Yes, well done! The thing is, most of the people in this forum are blissfully unaware of GNU's process, milestones, and deadlines. I know it's un

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/30/14 4:13 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: Hi all, On March 22, 2014, GDC will turn 10! \o/ This is a great landmark achievement in brevity for GDC, but we still haven't achieved in my personal opinion any levity of worthy note. So much to the point I'm beginning to give doubt myself as to how lon

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-30 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 30 January 2014 19:06, Iain Buclaw wrote: > On 30 January 2014 12:38, Dicebot wrote: >> Is there anything that a supporter can do if he is unable to spend time on >> direct contribution? :( > > If you have knowledge of the frontend, you can resolve implementation > issues that are known to bre

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-30 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 30 January 2014 12:38, Dicebot wrote: > Is there anything that a supporter can do if he is unable to spend time on > direct contribution? :( If you have knowledge of the frontend, you can resolve implementation issues that are known to break GDC/LDC. ie: https://github.com/D-Programming-Langu

Re: 10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-30 Thread Dicebot
Is there anything that a supporter can do if he is unable to spend time on direct contribution? :(

10th Birthday for GDC

2014-01-30 Thread Iain Buclaw
Hi all, On March 22, 2014, GDC will turn 10! \o/ This is a great landmark achievement in brevity for GDC, but we still haven't achieved in my personal opinion any levity of worthy note. So much to the point I'm beginning to give doubt myself as to how long things can continue with a bus-fact