Deimos need some works

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, July 18, 2013 09:37:52 bioinfornatics wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 July 2013 at 07:36:48 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote:
> > after taking a look about dub source code. I do not think dun is
> > the way to go. Maybe i misunderstanding something.  This project
> > do not follow FHS: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/FHS.
> > 
> > at line 73
> > https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub/blob/master/source/dub/dub.d#L73
> > dub path are set to "/var/lib/dub/"
> > 
> > and at line 195
> > https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub/blob/master/source/dub/dub.d#L195
> > 
> >   install path is set to "/var/lib/dub/packages/"
> > 
> > Any serious linux distro should to accept this to their official
> > repo. Then all d project which provides only dub as installer
> > will fail grow.
> > 
> > Maybe i misunderstood somewhere just show me
> 
> Any serious linux distro should not* to accept this to their
> official repo.

Except that none of this is supposed to even be in a Linux distro. None of it 
would ever be in a Linux package or be installed in /usr or /var or any of 
that. These are development packages, not actual programs, so there's no 
reason to even have them installed by the distro in the main system. You only 
need them to build your own software.

Now, that's a bit different if you're dealing with shared libraries (which 
we'll have soon), and at that point, dub (or any other D package manager) 
would potentially have to worry about looking at what's installed on the 
system in some standard manner, and shared D libraries would be installed with 
Linux packages. But for anything you'd be doing now, that's completely 
irrelevant, because there's no benefit in installing any of it in the system as 
a whole. This is particularly true for deimos projects which don't even 
generate static libraries. They've basically just the D equivalent of a bunch 
of include files.

So, I don't think that discussing installing deimos with a linux package (such 
as an rpm or deb) makes any sense at all. At this point, the only D stuff that 
it makes sense to make Linux packages for is applications. In the future, 
it'll make sense for shared libraries, and package tools like dub will have to 
adapt deal with that, but for the moment, since shared library support in D is 
in its infancy, it's pretty much a non-issue.

We _could_ make linux packages for static libraries, but there's really not 
much benefit in doing so, particularly when D compiles so quickly, and you 
pretty much have to have built everything with the same version of dmd. But 
not even that applies to deimos, since it just provides bindings.

- Jonathan M Davis