Cool Stuff for D that we keep Secret

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 10 10:23:00 PDT 2014


On 7/10/14, 1:07 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 09/07/14 21:21, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Dustmite is just one example of this, but it's on top of my head because
>> I went looking for a link to it to go with the Reddit pointer to the
>> video. It fits in quite nicely with my previous antics at discovering
>> there were no links to gdc or ldc instructions, and no mention anywhere
>> that to get gdc on Ubuntu, one only needs to type:
>>
>>     sudo apt-get install gdc
>>
>> All you guys building stuff - it's all WASTED EFFORT if you don't make
>> it findable by users. /rant
>
> So what's the policy on this? Which tools can be added to dlang.org? I
> have a tool, DVM [1], for installing DMD. It's cross-platform, allows
> you to install and switch between multiple versions of DMD. Doesn't
> require any updates when new releases of DMD come out. It just works.
>
> Should I create a pull request and add instructions and a link to it?
>
> [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm

Long-standing tools of known usefulness should definitely be easily 
accessible from the main site. I'm not sure about the particulars 
though, but these are for the entire community to decide.

Andrei



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