[aur-general] TUs: anyone want to take dmd into community?
Hey, I spoke to Walter and he told me that it would be okay to let Arch Linux distribute dmd in the repositories. I'm not a TU, but feel free to take over the dmd and libphobos packages (and perhaps even libtango). (for those who don't know what dmd is: it's the main compiler for the D programming language) Anders
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Anders Bergh <anders1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, Hi,
I spoke to Walter and he told me that it would be okay to let Arch Linux distribute dmd in the repositories. I'm not a TU, but feel free to take over the dmd and libphobos packages (and perhaps even libtango). I launched the initiative for dmd. Robin Kreis sent an E-mail to Walter, and forwarded his answer to me. My policy would be to include this E-mail in /usr/share/license/dmd/, like for Skype. I don't know much about this whole D question, I use use apps written in D. I would need another authorization to package libphotos and/or libtango (then, including dmd to use the same E-mail for all packages...).
(for those who don't know what dmd is: it's the main compiler for the D programming language) And it's x86-only, binary form (i.e. no x86_64). gdc, GCC's port for D, is far from usable in its last stable version, from what I've heard on #d.
I think it should be discussed here, as it's not available for x86_64, only Archlinux and a few others can redistribute it, etc. I personnaly would like to include it, as you can guess. Thank you for your work, -- Geoffroy Carrier
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Geoffroy Carrier <geoffroy.carrier@koon.fr> wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Anders Bergh <anders1@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, Hi,
I spoke to Walter and he told me that it would be okay to let Arch Linux distribute dmd in the repositories. I'm not a TU, but feel free to take over the dmd and libphobos packages (and perhaps even libtango). I launched the initiative for dmd. Robin Kreis sent an E-mail to Walter, and forwarded his answer to me. My policy would be to include this E-mail in /usr/share/license/dmd/, like for Skype. I don't know much about this whole D question, I use use apps written in D. I would need another authorization to package libphotos and/or libtango (then, including dmd to use the same E-mail for all packages...).
I didn't know anyone had emailed him already.
(for those who don't know what dmd is: it's the main compiler for the D programming language) And it's x86-only, binary form (i.e. no x86_64). gdc, GCC's port for D, is far from usable in its last stable version, from what I've heard on #d.
Yes, gdc is quite buggy, and it's not really maintained so much anymore.
I think it should be discussed here, as it's not available for x86_64, only Archlinux and a few others can redistribute it, etc. I personnaly would like to include it, as you can guess.
There's already 32-bit closed source software in community, like skype and others, so I don't really see a problem with this. And gdc could be provided as well (but again, it's not perfect).
Thank you for your work,
-- Geoffroy Carrier
PS. I tried a couple of times to do a gdc package, but... I found it very annoying. Every time something went wrong I had to rebuild everything again. gcc doesn't like being installed separately, ideally gdc would be in the gcc package, but it's not compatible with 4.3. I'll post what I had later and perhaps someone who knows more about the gcc build / install process could help me out. Anders
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