On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Geoffroy Carrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Anders Bergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hey, > Hi, > >> I spoke to Walter and he told me that it would be okay to let Arch >> Linux distribute dmd in the repositories. I'm not a TU, but feel free >> to take over the dmd and libphobos packages (and perhaps even >> libtango). > I launched the initiative for dmd. > Robin Kreis sent an E-mail to Walter, and forwarded his answer to me. > My policy would be to include this E-mail in /usr/share/license/dmd/, > like for Skype. > I don't know much about this whole D question, I use use apps written in D. > I would need another authorization to package libphotos and/or > libtango (then, including dmd to use the same E-mail for all > packages...).
I didn't know anyone had emailed him already. >> (for those who don't know what dmd is: it's the main compiler for the >> D programming language) > And it's x86-only, binary form (i.e. no x86_64). > gdc, GCC's port for D, is far from usable in its last stable version, > from what I've heard on #d. Yes, gdc is quite buggy, and it's not really maintained so much anymore. > I think it should be discussed here, as it's not available for x86_64, > only Archlinux and a few others can redistribute it, etc. > I personnaly would like to include it, as you can guess. > There's already 32-bit closed source software in community, like skype and others, so I don't really see a problem with this. And gdc could be provided as well (but again, it's not perfect). > Thank you for your work, > > -- > Geoffroy Carrier > > PS. I tried a couple of times to do a gdc package, but... I found it very annoying. Every time something went wrong I had to rebuild everything again. gcc doesn't like being installed separately, ideally gdc would be in the gcc package, but it's not compatible with 4.3. I'll post what I had later and perhaps someone who knows more about the gcc build / install process could help me out. Anders
