Mono-D v0.5.5.5 - Huge completion refactoring/v0.5.5.6 - Bug fixes

[Daniel Kozak]

On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 12:57:15 UTC, Alexander Bothe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 06:18:44 UTC, ilya-stromberg 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 6 January 2014 at 23:58:46 UTC, Alexander Bothe 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 2 January 2014 at 20:13:33 UTC, Daniel Kozak 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I must admit, that you do lots of awsome work on this IDE
>>>> (plugin). But still it is quiet bad. After clean install I 
>>>> am not
>>>> able to run even basic hello world. Ok I can uninstall
>>>> gnome-terminal and install xterm. After that I can run basic
>>>> terminal apps, but not debug them :(. Maybe it would be 
>>>> better to
>>>> stop adding new features and try to make it more stable.
>>>
>>> Are you using Ubuntu?
>>> Perhaps installing libgnome-ui might solve the problem.
>>>
>>> Anyway, issues like these are mostly caused by MonoDevelop 
>>> which can't be run on such a huge variety of Linux setups 
>>> without further efforts - so how does this relate to 
>>> stability when I actually am able to run&debug programs?
>>
>> Probably, we can add additional notice for Ubuntu users.
>> I use Ubuntu KDE and can debug programs, but your installation 
>> instructions talk nothing about Ubuntu gnome.
>>
>> BTW, it's also stability question. Assume that new D member 
>> wants to install Mono-D. What he should think if it fails for 
>> the most popular Linux OS? I understand that it's MonoDevelop 
>> issue, but new D member doesn't know it.
>
>
> Okay, I've tested everything successfully under Ubuntu 13.XX 
> now:
>
> 1) Downloading&untar'ing my MD distro
> 2) Installing libgnomeui-0 due to that GnomePlatform error at 
> launching MD (okay, that was indeed a main problem until 
> now..but well, I'm off Ubuntu for..2 years now?)
> 3) Installing dmd from the d/l page
> 4) Installing Mono-D & the Gdb debugging addin
>
> 5) Add the dmd include path to Mono-D's settings
> 6) Making a test D project
> 7) Compile & Debug it
>
> Now where's the actual problem with this 'routine'?
>
> Which point except 2) wasn't written on my installation page 
> already?
Still debugging does not work :(. But for others (C#,...) it 
works well. Maybe it is something with dmd. I have clean 
installation of Archlinux x64