Joseph Wakeling Wrote: > > Well, here is the page that links to the PPA. > > https://launchpad.net/~gdc-drivers > > Package still needs some loving - fleshing it out of gdc into it's own gdc2 > > is > > probably a todo, and clean up applied patches, as a number are not relevant > > to D2. > > Thanks very much! Will try it out and get back to you on my experience. > > > Anyone interested in helping out, just PM me. > > ... maybe worth coordinating with the D Language Packagers team? Rather than > a > dedicated gdc PPA, in the longer term it might be better to organise D stuff > into > a 'D-language' PPA for stable packages (up-to-date ldc, gdc, libtango, ...) > and > 'D-language-beta' for bleeding-edge stuff like this. >
I *am* the D Packagers team in Ubuntu and Debian - it is only me (for the moment). :-) > You mentioned that this gdc breaks other D packages on the system -- what > should I > watch out for? > > Thanks again and best wishes, > > -- Joe It is pretty much just general language changes that are not backwards compatible with D1 that caused the most issues. Nothing else really. If you write a program for the D2 compiler, it will work with the D2 compiler. Regards Iain
