D2 Library Porters

[Jonathan Andrew]

On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 at 11:18:36 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 4 July 2012 11:52, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>> On 2012-07-04 02:34, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 04, 2012 00:42:22 Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just so long as it isn't Gentoo. :o)
>>>>
>>>> Afterall, out of all of the linux distros out there, I would 
>>>> say that
>>>> gentoo takes the least time to mess around... </sarcasm>
>>>
>>>
>>> LOL. I did use Gentoo for a while, but I got sick of things 
>>> breaking on
>>> updates. Arch provides most of the benefits that Gentoo does 
>>> but defaults
>>> to
>>> binary packages while letting you build them from source if 
>>> you want to
>>> rather
>>> than making _everything_ be built from source. And 
>>> surprisingly, Arch
>>> seems to
>>> do a better job of providing bleeding edge packages quickly 
>>> than Gentoo
>>> does
>>> (at least for the packages that I care about).
>>>
>>> But Linux distros are one of those things that you can argue 
>>> about
>>> endlessly.
>>> To each their own I guess.
>>
>>
>> I agree. I tried LFS and then added portage, which basically 
>> made it into
>> Gentoo. I general I like the idea about Gentoo but it just 
>> takes too much
>> time. These days I'm staying away from Gentoo and using Ubuntu 
>> when I'm
>> using Linux. But we all know that the best Unix-like system is 
>> Mac OS X :)
>>
>
> Another platform that we need to start testing extensively with 
> GDC. :-)
>
> Anyone willing to jump onboard?

I'll bite - I'm getting my feet wet again after being away from 
programming for a long absence, but I'd love to help out if I can.

I'm more of a Linux guy than an OSX man, but since my wife 
insists on using FaceTime to chat with me while we are apart, I'm 
stuck here in Apple-land! What can I do?