Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

[Walter Bright]

Bill Lear wrote:
> Thanks to all for the (mostly) thoughtful comments on this issue.  I
> have tried again, this time documenting my steps, to more thouroughly
> illustrate what I am going through.  Here is a more-or-less verbatim
> run of my efforts to get dbi compiled and installed.  To say the
> least, the results are less than satisfying:

Thanks for taking the time and effort to document what is going wrong. 
This is very valuable information.