larsivi has put out a call for action. The future of GDC is looking bleak, making it likely that maintaining support for the compiler in Tango will become more and more difficult. As larsivi says:
If you want to avoid this situation, help with the mantainance and development of GDC. Arthur Loiret, Debian’s GDC mantainer, has promised to commit patches, but you must write them!
So if it’s in the realm of your abilities to do so, please give a helping hand to the GDC project.
I don’t see the problem. If LDC gets feature complete it’s all for the better. We would all like to get rid of gcc, but it’s hard because we still depend on it.
I think there are several people who would disagree with you. I use GCC for any C work I do, even on Windows. The backend is solidly mature, has a good optimizer, is available on numerous platforms, and is constantly improving. There’s no reason to abandon GDC just because LDC gets everything in place (and that will be a while yet). IMO, multiple compilers for D will be a good thing in the long run.
We should try and keep the D.gnu newsgroup active.
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?search_txt=&group=D.gnu
What would beifit the GDC project at this moment is a list of things that people can get a handle on to improve. At the moment, as I see it, the call is nice but means nothing is there isn’t a clear view of what GDC problems are… what keeps it back, module by module, what a developer can do to help it keep up with LDC, etc.