Why aren't you using D at work?

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 16:04:05 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 10:17:49 UTC, lobo wrote:
>> On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 01:13:10 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 14:38:51 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>> About the only thing really holding me back is that the local 
>>> sys-admins can't:
>>>
>>>   $ yum install gcd
>>>
>>
>> Can you install to $HOME ?
>
> I can do that, but there are other developers in our group.  We 
> need to be able to build each other's software.  Java, Python 
> and C are accepted as standard languages around here and seem 
> to cover all our needs.  Since we have a "complete set" adding 
> a new one would be met with resistance.  Having command line 
> tools available through standard software distribution channels 
> would soften this resistance.

If DMD is sufficient, I'm not really any problems.  Even FHS has 
your back.  Sysadmin does this:

cd /opt;
wget 
http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.067.1/dmd.2.067.1.linux.zip -qO tmp.zip \
&& unzip tmp.zip \
&& rm tmp.zip \
&& echo 'export PATH="${PATH}:/opt/dmd2/linux/bin64"' >> 
/etc/profile

...and voila.  It might be kind of nice to have a "latest" 
symlink for the download (e.g. 
http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/latest/dmd.latest.zip), but 
that'd just be icing.

Alternatively, ask have them make you a group-writable volume to 
use as a --prefix for everything that you might want (we ended up 
doing this because CantOS so strongly resembles LFS when you want 
to accomplish anything useful).  Or have people add ~cpiker/bin 
(or whatever your HOME is) to their PATH in ~/.profile (or just 
add the path in your Makefiles, if you're feeling evil).

It could certainly be better, but I wouldn't personally consider 
it a blocker as things are.

-Wyatt