Am 12.07.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d:
Hi,
Out of curiosity, how many projects are still supporting D 2.064.2
compiler/runtime? Granted that this is the version shipped in the
current Debian Stable and Ubuntu LTS (which will be supported until 2020).
I'm both interested in how much willingness, and how much awareness
there are around maintaining versions that are shipped with an OS whose
combined market share potentially make up for 50% of all Linux Servers.
Also whether or not anyone actually took on board my announcement last year.
Regards
Iain.
The only active one I know of is DUB:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/blob/10b3a63b6433bf97c6b56e44c1e78f80b9238a6f/.travis.yml#L11
However, I've never tried to use the shipped packages on Ubuntu or
Debian during the last years, because I knew how out of date they are.
Apart from DUB, especially for vibe.d, it's next to impossible to
maintain anything complex for as far back as 2.064 due to a few very
nasty issues. On top of that it's already sometimes really hard for me
personally to stick to the current "last 3 frontend versions" rule,
because I'm really eager to use some of the "newish" features ;)
