The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD
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Mon Apr 10 07:33:34 PDT 2017
On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 11:40:12 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 1) Is there some perspective on D getting a defined ABI that
> works with all major D compilers?
> 2) What would the D community recommend on how to deal with
> the ABI issues currently? A Linux distribution is a bunch of
> tightly integrated software, and changing one piece in an
> incompatible way (e.g. by building it with LDC instead of DMD)
> will have consequences.
> 3) Will DMD support more architectures in the near future?
> How should the architecture issue be handled?
My prediction for Walters reply:
1) No. Not worth it, because templates, ctfe, etc.
3) No. Not worth it, because D frontend stuff is more important.
> Also: If you want to help out Debian's D team, feel free to
> ping me or any other D team member (we are very short handed
> and are only two active people right now). See
> https://wiki.debian.org/D (caution, wiki page is very outdated,
> last touched in 2012)
Tentative ping, but that Wiki page is not helpful. The linked svn
repo is empty. Where and how do you work?
I guess the issue are still the same as you wrote here (except 1.
is solved):
https://gist.github.com/ximion/fe6264481319dd94c8308b1ea4e8207a
So, mostly dub needs work, I guess.
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