On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 17:28 +0000, Elronnd via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 11:50:25 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > > > LDC which is packaged by both Debian and Fedora is the > > only practically usable D compiler on both these platforms. > > What's impractical about downloading and installing an rpm? For > that matter, downloading the source and compiling it isn't all > that impractical either.
Downloading and installing an RPM outside of dnf. For you. There is little point in debating this on these lines. Your perspective is of a determined technical person really wanting to get moving with something. That's great, but is a totally different perspective from trying to gain traction and have good marketing amongst people who have no intention of putting themselves out. From a marketing perspective if it isn't in the aptitude (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint,…) or dnf (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL,…) install area it doesn't exist – at least in terms of easy traction. The upshot of this thread is that downloads from the website should be downgraded in profile for Linux and MacOS – Windows is just a #### system where download is all there is (caveat Chocolatey but it has very little traction). For MacOS (or whatever it is called this week), there is MacPorts and Brew and everything D related should be in there. For Debian, Fedora, Arch, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. all D related things should either be in the main repository for the system or (second rate but…) in a repository that can be added to the set up. As soon as the way of installing is "download and install" you are lost. This is not about the keen folk, this is about the average folk. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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