From: Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dmd D Programming Language compiler
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:22:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AACCEB.8050001@digitalmars.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8nqf0qr.fsf@gnu.org>
Thank you!
On 1/28/2016 2:37 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> skribis:
>
>> On 3/17/2015 10:25 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Hi Walter,
>>>
>>> Apologies for the late reply.
>>>
>>> Walter Bright <walter@digitalmars.com> skribis:
>>>
>>>> The D programming language compiler has been called dmd since about
>>>> 2000 or so. In order to avoid confusion, may I request that the Gnu
>>>> dmd ("Daemons-managing Daemon") change its acronym?
>>> For the record, GNU’s dmd has been around since ~2003¹.
>>>
>>> Changing names is obviously an annoyance, technically and otherwise.
>>> We’re not opposed to the idea, but that would take a bit more discussion
>>> among developers.
>> Thanks for considering this. I appreciate it.
> Just to let you know: we have finally released a renamed version of what
> used to be known as GNU dmd:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00958.html
>
> The old web page is still there but will vanish soon.
>
> Ludo’.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-29 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-04 22:07 dmd D Programming Language compiler Walter Bright
2015-03-17 17:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-17 18:58 ` Walter Bright
2016-01-28 10:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-29 2:22 ` Walter Bright [this message]
2016-01-07 21:02 ` dmd’s new name Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-07 20:35 ` d.4.n.1
2016-01-07 21:09 ` dmd’s " Florian Paul Schmidt
2016-01-08 4:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-08 9:06 ` Adam Pribyl
2016-01-08 10:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-16 14:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
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