Call for arms: Arch Linux D package maintenance

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On Thursday, 16 February 2017 at 19:58:47 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am planning on asking to become TU for the dlang packages in
> community. I've been building and working with the current 
> packages
> and making my own packages to make sure I know what I'm getting 
> in to.
> LDC and GDC are matched with the system versions of llvm and 
> gcc. If I
> can get TU approval I will put time in to these packages and 
> hopefully
> make some Arch tools that use dlang to try and promote it more.
> To learn makepkg and nampac etc I built this [0], it is a set of
> PKGBUILD files that are loosely based on the way I use multiple
> official dmd compilers on my dev box. Some of my customers use 
> older
> version of Vibe that do not build on current dmd. I actually 
> normally
> use /usr/local/ and not /usr/lib for my dmd installation. It 
> also has
> a little utility for switching between compilers versions, 
> similar to
> archlinux-java.
>
> [0]: https://github.com/rjmcguire/archlinux-dmd

Hi Ruby,

I just saw that you pushed out new versions for LDC and Phobos - 
thanks a lot for doing this!
Your work is highly appreciated :)

> If I can get TU approval I will put time in to these packages 
> and hopefully make some Arch tools that use dlang to try and 
> promote it more.

Awesome! I am really looking forward to this!
Please let us know if there's any way we can help you to make 
this process easier.