DMD in Gentoo

[Anant Narayanan]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> Great.  The announcement that it's for a specific version is what
> tweaked my concern as it's a key aspect of why Walter doesn't allow
> redistribution.  He wants users to always get the latest release, not
> have old releases living in the wild.  Does this package seek to always
> get the most recent version or is it hard coded at those versions?

Unfortunately, our QA policy does not allow such fetching (since the latest
version may be broken, which is inconvenient for our users). Any new releases
require a new ebuild to be written which guarantees that it works - the build
system is not always the same across releases.

However, Gentoo is one of the distributions known for its '0-day releases', as
updates to the tree happen very frequently. There shouldn't be a gap of more than
 7 days between a new upstream release and a downstream ebuild.

Best Regards,
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Anant Narayanan
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