Thoughts about D package management on Gentoo

[Iain Buclaw]

On 10 November 2013 10:33, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-11-09 14:52, Marco Leise wrote:
>
>  "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.
>>
>
> I might have been a bit unclear. I was thinking we had a symlink called
> "dc" that would point to dmd, gdmd or ldmd2. I don't like that you can
> invoke "dmd" and it will compile using GDC.
>
>
It also makes no sense as both have wildly different compiler switch
names.  And for the switches that are the same, both interpret the switches
differently. ie:  '-I ./imports'  works for GDC but not DMD (for some
reason DMD doesn't like spaces between switches and switch arguments).


-- 
Iain Buclaw

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