On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 23:42:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 10/17/2015 2:24 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
I wish the extent of platform support for GDC and LDC was
clearer. I
decided not to list any platforms on D's download page unless
support
for those platforms was rock-solid and is expected to work.
At least at that time, iOS and Android support, as I
understood it, was
in the "well, if you download this thing some guy uploaded to
his
personal website and patch that file and don't do this thing
which
doesn't work yet, you might get a "hello world" that runs from
the
terminal if you SSH in" ballpark. I'm not sure we should be
advertising
support for any platform at that level. Personally, I feel
that if a
platform/architecture is listed on a language's download page,
I should
be able to download the compiler and build a fully-working
application
within a few minutes, and as I understand we are nowhere close
to that
yet. I don't feel particularly strong about this, but if we do
decide to
lower the bar, then we should reconsider all the other
platforms that
have been left out (such as the long list of GDC architectures
which I
understood Iain to say that, well, since the build succeeds
and Debian
successfully packages it, then it has to work. I might be
wrong, though,
which is my point exactly - there is really insufficient
information
about what exactly one can expect to work on each
platform/architecture
(and their combinations).
I think it'll be alright if these are clearly marked as
unofficial and alpha quality, and perhaps with a blurb with
some details on what it's state actually is, like "compiles
hello world".
Should all this really be on the download page, though? There's
like a score platforms/architectures/combinations of such between
all compilers combined.
Have you looked at the linked wiki page?
http://wiki.dlang.org/Compilers
I'm not sure we should essentially be copying that table to
dlang.org.
I think we are good as we are right now. There is an "others"
link on the download page, so people interested in support for
less common or less supported platforms can find said information
on the wiki.
