Debian packages for D libraries

[Rob T]

On Wednesday, 3 October 2012 at 17:18:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I'm kinda on the fence about this one, mainly because dmd and 
> gdc have
> different command-line syntaxes. Yes gdc has a compatibility 
> mode, but
> that's not its "native" syntax. Ideally the symlink should 
> point to
> executables that have more-or-less the same command-line 
> syntax. It
> would suck if build scripts start failing just because you 
> updated the
> symlink to a different compiler.

DMD and GDC are not drop in replacements for each other due to 
the differences, so a common symlink is IMO a bad idea right now. 
Even if your build scripts were able to deal with a compiler 
switch from DMD to/from CDC, the linking part will fail unless 
everything being linked was rebuilt using the now current 
compiler.

--rt