Re: D support (gdc) and gdc -- D front end for GCC (Was: reassign to gcc-4.1)
Ludovic Brenta writes:
> owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:
> > Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
> >
> >> reassign 312367 gcc-4.1
> > Bug#312367: gcc-4.0: D support (gdc)
> > Bug#317983: RFP: gdc -- D Front End for GCC
> > Bug reassigned from package `gcc-4.0' to `gcc-4.1'.
>
> Doesn't that assume that we'll want to include the D front-end in the
> GCC package? The other option is to package gdc separately, like we
> did for gnat before it was integrated in GCC. I think we should give
> this other option some more consideration, because inclusion of the D
> front-end into upstream GCC doesn't seem to be planned yet.
IMO the best thing would be something similiar like we do for Ada and
Java now. We still can decouple the packaging from the gcc packaging,
but we should try to
- build a gdl-package with a build-dependency on gcc-4.1-source, so
that all debian patches can be applied
- only ship gdl related files in a gdl package, not the complete
toolchain like its done for example in ghdl or llvm.
Matthias
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