On 3/17/2015 10:25 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi Walter, Apologies for the late reply. Walter Bright <wal...@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.
BTW, it is unfortunate that Digital Mars’ compiler back-end denies² its users essential freedoms to help each other (through redistribution), to adjust the code as they see fit, and to gain collective control of it and improve it. I hope you will reconsider this choice and choose a free software license.
I agree, but Symantec does not agree with changing the license, so I'm stuck (yes, I've tried). On the other hand, the gdc and ldc D compilers are based on open source back ends.
