I apologize in advance for the large amount of mail that will
likely follow, but I want to address all comments.
On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 18:46:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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One issue, though: if we standardize on compiling Debian
packages with ldc, then what do we do with libraries that are
not ABI-compatible with dmd? Since users would expect that if
they need libfoo, they'd just `apt-get install libfoo-dev` and
then they should be able to just run` dmd -L-lfoo` and it
should all magically "just work".
That's the problem I would like to see addressed (but given
Walter's comment, it won't be feasible to resolve it in the near
future).
We could simply do away with "don't use distro packages for your
D programming", at least that's what Go recommends.
