LDC 1.7.0

[aberba]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 18:30:56 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 09:38:26 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 07:40:10 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
>> Scherkl wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:42:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>>> [...] Ubuntu 16.04
>>> This is a long-term support distribution.
>>> Don't expect those to have actual tip versions of any SW 
>>> package!
>>> They rely on stabe versions that don't have the latest 
>>> features
>>> but only those very well tested.
>>
>> The semver 1.7 is not an unstable package. Its that their 
>> reason for no updates?
>
> LDC 1.7.0 includes major changes to the frontend and is not 
> well-tested.
> If you want a better-tested recent LDC, I recommend LDC 1.6.0, 
> which is used in production at Weka.
>
> - Johan

I expected at least 1.6 to be available in the repo by now. I 
remember the availability of LDC in ubuntu was celebrated 
here...now it seem abandoned after such an effort. Maybe someone 
from the team can answer what happened.