stop to maitain rpm

[David Nadlinger]

Dear Jonathan,

It's sad to see you go, we desperately need any help we can get 
on the packaging front (for all those who don't know, Jonathan 
aka bioinfornatics has been maintaining several D-related 
packages in the official Fedora repositories).

However, I would argue that D libraries should not be packaged 
using the typical operating system package management facilities 
anyway, as those are very much tailored to mature C/C++ 
libraries. In the case of D, even if a given library tried to 
maintain a stable ABI, it would not succeed as the various 
compilers and different versions of the same compiler are not 
ABI-compatible (yet).

Together with the fact that one often wants to use several D 
compilers side by side (e.g. DMD for quick debug builds, LDC for 
optimized release versions, or the latest DMD version for a new 
project along with a slightly older one for some code that has 
not been updated yet), I think that dedicated language-specific 
tools like they are common with other newer programming languages 
are also the way to go for D.

What would be nice, however, is to have these D-specific tools 
such as DVM, dub, … available in the distro repositories, 
preconfigured to fit the customs of the given system. This way, 
users could just do "yum install dvm dub" (or whatever other 
tools) to get a fully working D environment.

David