DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[retard]

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:00:21 -0600, Christopher Nicholson-Sauls wrote:

> On 01/08/11 20:18, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:34:19 +0200, Walter Bright
>>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, I could spend an afternoon doing that.
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get build-dep meld
>>> wget
>>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/meld/1.5/meld-1.5.0.tar.bz2 tar
>>> jxf meld-1.5.0.tar.bz2
>>> cd meld-1.5.0
>>> make
>>> sudo make install
>>>
>>> You're welcome ;)
>>>
>> Thanks, I'll give it a try!
> 
> I say you should consider moving away from *Ubuntu and to something more
> "developer-friendly" such as Gentoo, where the command to install meld
> is just:
> emerge meld
> 
> ...done.  And yes, that's an install from source.  I just did it myself,
> and it took right at one minute.

Gentoo really needs a high-end computer to run fast. FWIW, the same meld 
takes 7 seconds to install on my ubuntu. That includes fetching the 
package from the internet (1-2 seconds). Probably even faster on Arch.