What's up with GDC?

Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 10 14:00:34 PDT 2016


On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 20:30:36 UTC, Joerg Joergonson wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 19:51:19 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
>>   [...]
>
> Well, the post was a bit incoherent because getting all this 
> stuff working is. I was searching for ldc and ran across some 
> web site that had only the sources(same for gdc).
>
> The point of it all is that things seem to be a bit 
> discombobulated and make D look bad.  Professions won't use D 
> if it can't be used professionally(not that I'm a pro, just 
> saying).
>
> Why isn't there a proper binaries for ldc and gdc that work out 
> of the box like dmd?  There used to be. What's up with all this 
> arm-linux-genuabi crap? When one opens up the archive all the 
> files are named that way too.  There is no explanation of what 
> that means. Did some kid write this stuff in his basement or is 
> this suppose to be serious? Do people think about the end user 
> when creating this stuff or is it just a eureka moment 
> "Lightbulb: Lets create some spaghetti!".
>
> I would have thought things would have gotten easier and more 
> logical but that doesn't seem to be the case.

The official download page is http://dlang.org/download.html (ldc 
download can be found from there) - please let us know if you 
find other outdated pages.

You can even use the official install script for ldc and gdc too 
:)


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