Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-21 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 21 October 2016 at 19:53:14 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote: GDC git is completely 2.068.2. There are no updated binary releases as there's still one remaining blocker regression (32bit only). sorry for spreading false info then.

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-21 Thread Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d
Am Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:21:34 + schrieb ketmar : > On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 05:43:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky > wrote: > >> And GDC is using the 2.068 feature set, plus a lot of bug > >> fixes from > >> later versions. I guess you could call it 2.068.5. :-) > >>

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-20 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 16:03:32 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 10/20/2016 08:21 AM, ketmar wrote: On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 05:43:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Not sure what your point is here. If you're writing a library and want to avoid giving your users deprecation messages

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 10/20/2016 08:21 AM, ketmar wrote: On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 05:43:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Not sure what your point is here. If you're writing a library and want to avoid giving your users deprecation messages due to the import changes, then you need to test on 2.070 or newer.

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-20 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 05:43:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: And GDC is using the 2.068 feature set, plus a lot of bug fixes from later versions. I guess you could call it 2.068.5. :-) Maybe there's a certain amount of truth to that, but not completely: In all my projects anyway,

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-20 Thread Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
Am Wed, 19 Oct 2016 19:25:39 + schrieb TheGag96 : > On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 03:29:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: > > On the other hand LDC subjectively offers a couple more D > > specific enhancements, like turning GC allocations into stack > > allocations in

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 10/19/2016 05:13 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 19 October 2016 at 18:01, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d The last GDC release is stuck all the way back at DMDFE v2.066, which is over two years old. Very few libs/projects are going to still be supporting that, there's just

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 03:29:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: I'd say start with DMD, as it comes practically free of dependencies […] The same applies to LDC. If you want, you can use the self-contained binary releases, which just require the system linker to be present, like DMD does.

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
On 19 October 2016 at 21:25, TheGag96 via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 03:29:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: >> >> On the other hand LDC subjectively offers a couple more D specific >> enhancements, like turning GC allocations into stack

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
On 19 October 2016 at 18:01, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 10/18/2016 07:02 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: >> >> I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. >> >> Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks >> gdc is a

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread TheGag96 via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 03:29:10 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: On the other hand LDC subjectively offers a couple more D specific enhancements, like turning GC allocations into stack allocations in trivial cases Whoa, seriously? I know it's a bit off-topic, but do you have a code example

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 10/18/2016 07:02 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks gdc is a better candidate because it's "available to the masses" through Linux distros similar to how gcc is. Although he

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 10:21:43 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: because GDC is not yet merged into GCC. there is absolutely no reason to do this. while today the question of syncing gdc frontend with dmd is only a question of manpower, with such a merge gdc will *always* be behind, stucked

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 10:15:49 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: Not true, as my previos comment mentioned almost every popular distro nowdays have ldc and gdc in repositories. But only few of them have dmd most of the distros just can't. they with to repackage/rebuild it, and boom! it is

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d
Dne 19.10.2016 v 12:15 Daniel Kozak napsal(a): Dne 19.10.2016 v 12:05 bachmeier via Digitalmars-d napsal(a): On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 07:37:33 UTC, qznc wrote: On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 00:07:12 UTC, bachmeier wrote: According to this page https://gdcproject.org/downloads/

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 23:02:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks gdc is a better candidate because it's "available to the masses" through Linux distros similar to

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d
Dne 19.10.2016 v 12:05 bachmeier via Digitalmars-d napsal(a): On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 07:37:33 UTC, qznc wrote: On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 00:07:12 UTC, bachmeier wrote: According to this page https://gdcproject.org/downloads/ there are only distro packages for Ubuntu, Debian,

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 07:37:33 UTC, qznc wrote: On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 00:07:12 UTC, bachmeier wrote: According to this page https://gdcproject.org/downloads/ there are only distro packages for Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch. If that's accurate, there really is no sense in which

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 19 October 2016 at 00:07:12 UTC, bachmeier wrote: According to this page https://gdcproject.org/downloads/ there are only distro packages for Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch. If that's accurate, there really is no sense in which GDC is more available than DMD. Yes it is. Installing

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-19 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d
Dne 19.10.2016 v 01:02 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d napsal(a): I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks gdc is a better candidate because it's "available to the masses" through Linux distros similar to

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-18 Thread Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
Am Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:02:28 -0700 schrieb Ali Çehreli : > I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. > > Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks > gdc is a better candidate because it's "available to the masses" through > Linux

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-18 Thread Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
Am Wed, 19 Oct 2016 00:07:12 + schrieb bachmeier : > On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 23:31:42 UTC, bachmeier wrote: > > > That's not a very convincing argument IMO. DMD packages are > > available for download on this site. As I have learned the hard > > way, the experience

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-18 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 23:31:42 UTC, bachmeier wrote: That's not a very convincing argument IMO. DMD packages are available for download on this site. As I have learned the hard way, the experience isn't always the best when you rely on distro packagers. I once had to change distros

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-18 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 16:02:28 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d wrote: > I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. > > Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks > gdc is a better candidate because it's "available to the masses" through > Linux

Re: gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-18 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 23:02:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks gdc is a better candidate because it's "available to the masses" through Linux distros similar to

gdc in Linux distros recommended?

2016-10-18 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
I have a friend who has started writing a library in D. Although I recommended that he should use a recent dmd or ldc, he thinks gdc is a better candidate because it's "available to the masses" through Linux distros similar to how gcc is. Although he has a good point, the gdc that came with