Thoughts about D package management on Gentoo

[Iain Buclaw]

On 11 November 2013 16:14, Dicebot <public at dicebot.lv> wrote:

> On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 15:54:11 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
>
>> D will eventually be an official GCC language and in the
>> Gentoo tree. That will be how you install GDC in the future.
>> We'll have to live with the binary, library and include
>> directories it creates.
>>
>
> I actually fear that moment because the way GCC infrastructure works it is
> impossible to make language updates within single GCC stack version. So GDC
> users will likely just ignore obsolete version packaged with GCC and build
> their own. And we will get reports from frustrated newbies "I have
> installed gcc-d package from the repo and nothing compiles".
>
> I like LLVM approach much better in that regard as it allows to define own
> versioning/release scheme.
>

Nobody makes that complaint about gccgo.  So what you are describing is an
attitude unique to this community.


Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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