Thoughts about D package management on Gentoo

[Marco Leise]

Am Sat, 09 Nov 2013 14:38:48 +0100
schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com>:

> On 2013-11-09 01:38, Marco Leise wrote:
> 
> > Next a symlink should be established to the current
> > implementation of dmd, e.g.: /bin/dmd -> /bin/ldmd2.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to have a symlink called "dc", similar to "cc" for 
> the C compiler. But that would require the DMD release to included a 
> "dc" symlink and have it available on all platforms. And also people 
> start using that instead of directly using dmd.
> 
> On the other hand, it would be better to hide these things behind a tool 
> like dub.

"dmd" and it's ilk (gdmd, ldmd2) have a known command line
syntax, "dc" doesn't. Symlinks are most useful when the
semantic stays the same. For example you can have "sh" be a
link to "bash" since bash recognizes being invoked as "sh" and
emulates it.
FWIW, DC as an environment variable across systems might be a
good thing. You can have that on Windows, too. Looking at the
file part of the path you could tell if it is ldc2, dmd, gdc
or rdmd...

-- 
Marco