On Wednesday, 22 December 2021 at 09:49:59 UTC, eugene wrote:
It looks strange - leading D compiler is not in Linux/FreeBSD repos :)
Well no so much. The only official compiler is DMD and when it comes to that, Digital Mars, has pre-built binaries for most Linux distros and for FreeBSD. Now the repos are another thing like I told you in a previous reply. The repos are managed by the distro maintainers and not the developers individual. D is a very unpopular language so it makes sense that not every distro (and freeBSD) have up to date packages. Some distros are not rolling release in general. FreeBSD (if I'm not mistaken) never promoted themselves as bleeding edge either. However, both DMD and LDC2 developers have up to date binaries for every platform they support. GDC is part of GCC so it's another story.... Also I prefer to use my distro's repos too for everything (and I can do that because I use Arch btw) but this is not possible every time. Downloading and installing binaries from other sites should be do some times, especially if you use non-bleeding edge distros or *BSD.
