On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 15:27 +0000, Benny via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > > […] > > Nothing wrong with choice as long as that choice does not > > introduces issues. Currently there are 3 compilers but also 3 > > different ways to install ( depending on the platform ). DMD has > > a installer, LDC needs a manual copy job + path creation, GDC did > > not even bother with ( sorry ). > > For me: > > aptitude install ldc > aptitude install gdc > aptitude install dmd-bin > aptitude install dub > > Seems to work fine, and no conflicts. [...]
Only because the OS has a sane packaging system (and some people were kind enough to package the compilers in nice packages). For less-privileged OSes, the user experience could be drastically different. ;-) T -- Prosperity breeds contempt, and poverty breeds consent. -- Suck.com
