D2 Library Porters

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Fri Jul 6 17:52:07 PDT 2012


On 5 July 2012 00:19, Jonathan Andrew <jonfandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?


I've made a gdc-4.7 branch to whom's sources will be used for the
packaging of gdc-4.7 and porting.

https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-4.7

Let us know if anyone hits any issues building and I'll try to help
out best I can.


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Iain Buclaw

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