Observation on packages

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 09:25:28PM +0200, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 18:33:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> >Due to a blocking, but short-lived, problem with Debian Unstable, I
> >upgraded my Fedora dual boot to Fedora 19. I note that whilst GCC is
> >4.8.1, and Go is packaged, D is not packaged. We know GCC 4.8.1 has
> >GCD, it is packaged and released for Debian, it is not packaged and
> >released in Fedora 19 as far as I can tell.
> 
> Ugh, since then GDC is part of official GCC package? As far as I
> remember it is still "work-in-progress". May be own initiative of
> Debian maintainer.

I don't think GDC is officially a part of GCC yet. The Debian package is
courtesy of a Debian developer who is working with Iain to bring GDC to
Debian.

If you want a Fedora package, you'd have to find somebody who knows how
to make an .rpm out of the GDC sources, and how to get it included in
the official repo.


T

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