Terminix Stable 1.2.0 Released

[qsdjlf via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 14:24:08 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 11:40:20 UTC, qsdjlf wrote:
>> [...]
>> integration in distribution could be a good signal, what a 
>> say, Excellent signal, for the D language. I know that some 
>> people here are mostly starving at commercial usage...but for 
>> me such tools written in D and available in linux distros via 
>> their package manager would be a much more significant sign.
>
> It is also something that brings people to D - a good toolchain 
> and many projects using D and being established in Linux 
> distributions is a *huge* influence.
>
> Unfortunately, D is still a bit painful in Linux distros.
> Those issues should be resolved to make integration easier:
>
> 1) Stable ABI for the D language which ideally also works 
> across compilers
>
> 2) Fixing dub bugs and adding features - at time, dub is pretty 
> unusable for distro packaging, which is why we use Terminix' 
> Automake support.
> Specifically, these issues need to be addressed:
>  - Find & use system dub packages: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/838
>  - Make dub compile by-file and not compile everything with one 
> compiler command (for very large projects this makes 
> parallelization hard and can also bring down less powerful 
> build slaves)
>  - Add "dub install" to install a project: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/839
>  - "dub test" shouldn't override the main binary, otherwise we 
> can't run tests properly in distros at compile-time: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/840
>
> 3) Making LDC available for more architectures, or making GDC 
> support a higher version of the Phobos standard library and 
> build shared libraries.
> At time, LDC is the better fit because of shared library 
> support and higher Phobos version. Current D projects are hard 
> to compile with GDC because of the latter reason.
> More architectures are not per-se essential, but would be 
> awesome to have. This feature request summarizes the status of 
> arch support for D in free compilers: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1636
>
> 4) Resolving weird LDC bugs like this one: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1618 - might 
> actually be an LLVM issue, but I don't know enough to pin down 
> the issue.
>
> 5) Have hardening supported for the D compilers: 
> https://wiki.debian.org/HardeningWalkthrough
>
> 6) Ideally have the free D compilers agree on a common set of 
> compiler options, like clang supports gcc compiler flags. That 
> allows distros to apply compiler flags globally, e.g. to enable 
> hardening.
>
> Of these points 1, 2 and 4 are very important, 3 would be 
> really nice to have and 5 and 6 would be going the extra mile 
> to make D awesome in distros and us as distribution vendors 
> really happy.

+1 very good post. Good lightening of the problem.