On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 20:07:59 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 16:41:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
I would file a bug, but I don't have time to dig into this
now, and it would just sit there with no response for six
months anyway.
I cannot find a way to get std.net.curl to work with Ubuntu
18.04. Details can be found here:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/bug-1864...@https.issues.dlang.org%2F
but that only lets you install the package without having a
broken package management system. It resolves nothing wrt
actually being able to use curl, which is part of the standard
library, and should be expected to work.
I tried using the install script, but that leads to this bug
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18808
which was filed more than a month ago and still hasn't
received a response.
This experiment with having a new release every couple of
weeks was fun, but can we please be realistic about our
resources, and move to a sensible schedule. D is simply not an
option in situations that require reliability. And all the
various deprecations and language changes that are inserted in
these high-frequency releases (changes of arbitrary size can
come with little warning in *any* release) make it that much
more difficult.
I think this was resolved by installing libcurl4-gnutls-dev,
removing the existing dmd, and reinstalling. Whatever the
problem was, this does not create a good impression. We have to
stop releasing so often. No other major language that I've used
has problems like this.
Your failure is that D is not a major language. It's like saying
that "No other dogs I've come across meow, why does this dog
meow"? It's a cat stupid!! :0
