On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 11:06:40 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 23:46:09 UTC, Paul O'Neil wrote:
On 01/25/2016 12:08 PM, ikod wrote:
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I think there's a longer discussion one one of the dub issues
that explains why this doesn't exist yet. The blocker is that
the D ABI is not compatible across compilers (dmd vs. ldc vs.
gdc) or compiler versions (2.068 vs. 2.069). Until there's a
reasonable resolution to that problem, I don't think there
will be OS packages of libraries.
Note that the OP is essentially talking about source
distribution for use in rdmd scripts. So ABI is not an issue.
This source could be installed as a Debian package, but since
dub exists, the question is whether to use dub or not. If not,
there'll be two parallel ways to install source. In any case,
files should be written to system directories and it should be
possible to uninstall.
Yes, exactly. As mentioned before, binaries in D are mostly
statically linked, and for statically linked binaries there is no
problem with dependencies. When this change, then binary
distribution will also requre packaged dependencies.
The question originates from here:
https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged/issues/171
