Does D need standard locations?

Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 2 09:48:59 PST 2015


On 2 February 2015 at 17:44, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> My attitude to any such changes in general is "I don't care as long as I can
> easily override it with own patches before packaging gdc".
>
> In practice distro are simply too different to try fitting everything into
> single pattern. In Arch Linux it is prohibited to package source-only
> libraries and thus dub is pretty much a necessity. At the same time being a
> bleeding edge distro it doesn't care for simultaneous support of many
> compiler versions at once and all that infrastructure can be dropped to keep
> things KISS.
>
> So, please, whatever you do, keep it easy for packager to override all paths
> :)

It's now a one-line change to stick it where-ever you want. Couldn't
be easier. :)

Iain.


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