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

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 07:40 -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 14:21:57 Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
> > This will *not* solve the issues with Phobos breakage though, as
> > Phobos is a shared library.
> 
> It could always just be distributed as a static library. There
> arguably
> isn't much point in distributing it as a shared library anyway -
> particularly when it's not ABI compatible across versions. I actively
> avoid
> having phobos as a shared library on my systems, because it just
> causes
> versioning problems when programs are built against it. All of those
> problems go away with a static library. And so much of Phobos is
> templated
> anyway that there isn't even much to share.
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis

Having played a bit with GtkD, you always want this as a shared library
for development. 

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