Consider using Digital Mars C compiler

Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by yuhong on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:20PM (#17139382)

Context: The Open Watcom license has been a problem for years.

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by nanamo on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:29PM (#17139431)

Could you please expand more

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by yuhong on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:30PM (#17139436)

I had an issue about the problems: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/issues/271

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by cjensen on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:47PM (#17139555)

So there's a theoretical problem, and a solution available.

Why should VirtualBox take the pain now rather than waiting and seeing if the theoretical issue every materializes? I mean, if someone does the work and tests it, then sure, VirtualBox should adopt it. But why is this their problem to solve now?

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by geofft on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:49PM (#17139569)

There is a practical problem that VirtualBox is in Debian contrib and not main because it cannot be built with tools in Debian main. (Whether this is a practical problem that matters to anyone is a different question, but it's more than theoretical.)

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by caf on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:46PM (#17140318)

I don't think DMC is in Debian main yet, is it?

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by yuhong on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:51PM (#17140354)

Probably not yet, but the license means that it can be.

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by JdeBP on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:58AM (#17141975)

So that is also just a theoretical idea at this point.

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by yuhong on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:18AM (#17142080)

Yea, they just open sourced it, so it might take a while for it to be packaged for Debian. I don't even know if it is ported to Linux yet at this point.

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