DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[Christopher Nicholson-Sauls]

On 01/10/11 21:14, retard wrote:
> 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. 

Tell that to the twelve year old machine here in our living room,
running latest Gentoo profile with KDE 4.x all with no problem.

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.

Sure, and my wife's Kubuntu machine would probably do the same -- since
*Ubuntu installs pre-compiled binaries (some packages are available as
source, as I recall, but very few).  I acknowledge that you disclaimed
your statement with a "FWIW" but I have to say it isn't much of a
comparison: pre-compiled binaries versus locally built from source.

I only really brought up how long it took because of Walter's "spend an
afternoon" comment anyhow, so really we both "win" in this case.  ;)
And yes, I'm an unashamed Gentoo advocate to begin with.  Been using it
as both server and personal desktop OS for years now.  (Of course half
or more of what I love about it is portage, which can be used with other
distros -- and BSD! -- although I know nothing about how one sets that up.)

-- Chris N-S