The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 12:38 +0000, Gerald via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Looking into Rust and Cargo Debian packaging, it looks like they 
> are looking to go with source packages to work around the ABI 
> issue:
> 
> "Because Rust doesn't have a stable shared-library ABI, and we 
> don't want to rebuild every Rust library package for every 
> architecture every time we upload a new version of rustc, we 
> package library crates as source code, installed into 
> /usr/share/cargo/registry/cratename-version/. Thus, the Debian 
> "binary" package for a library crate contains the same source as 
> the source package."
> 
> https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/debian-rust-packaging-policy-draft/
> 4453

So why bother, no Rust people will use it, they just use Cargo and it
gets stuff for them. Why bother packaging anything when people will not
use it? All you need to have a working Rust system on Debian is curl
and bash.

-- 
Russel.
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