Anders F Björklund wrote: > Lutger Blijdestijn wrote: >>> I uploaded the packages to SourceForge, if anyone else >>> wants to try them... It's made for Fedora 14 (x86_64): >> >> Thnx, installs and works fine for a few quick tests. Would be great to >> see the first D2 compiler in the next fedora release, and debian / ubuntu >> too of course. Great work! >> > > So that would be two different requests, the first is making > a new package for D2 and the second is upgrading to GCC 4.6... > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GCC46 > > I believe that Ubuntu are sticking with GCC 4.5.x for Natty, > or at least 4.5.1 is what is in the current Alpha 1 release ? > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/gcc > > The current "dmd" packages have an issue with /usr/bin/dmd > and /usr/include/d/dmd conflicts between 1.0xx and 2.0yy RPM, > even if /usr/lib/libphobos.a and /usr/lib/libphobos2.a don't. > Any packages for GDC using D2 would have the same problem... > > But it should be possible to use shims and symlinks to make > both installable, at least that's how it works on Mac OS X ? > A bigger problem is finding more developers for GCC46 and D2, > or perhaps upgrading LDC/Tango to D2 in the case of Fedora ? > > --anders
Yes, it requires some thought and manpower obviously. I'm not a packager, I don't what exactly is proper way to do it, but Fedora already packages python 2.x and python 3.x side by side, so perhaps that is a start. For Fedora I think D2 could be positioned as an alternative to mono in the long run, it fits the distro very well.
