[OT] Re: The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 12:03 +0000, Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> 
[…]
> Nah, there are several options here, one would simply be to tell 
> people not to use the distro packages with anything but the 
> default D compiler used in the respective Debian release.
> Go apparently tells people not to use Debian-shipped go code in 
> their own projects at all.

The vendoring systems that Go folk have invented are effectively
mandatory for projects that want reproducible builds, and using
platform specific code is not feasible. It suprises me that Debian and
Fedora are going flat out trying to package Go stuff.

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