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

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:03:27 UTC, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 22:15:53 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> So do we need to put a reminder about the ABI being unstable 
>> into set of every release notes to make sure we won't get 
>> angry bug reports once users actually build their own D code 
>> against your packages? ;)
>
> 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.

So as long as one sticks to packages in the official apt repos, 
all the libraries are guaranteed to be built with the distributed 
compiler as well?

When you mentioned that you'd read the release notes regarding 
the ABI change, I got the impression that you had to manually 
rebuild the world for that to happen – hence my tongue-in-cheek 
remark about reminding you to do this in the release notes.

Otherwise, you might get lucky as far as the distributed 
applications are concerned (i.e. happen not to hit any ABI 
issues), but users might still be hosed when it comes to their 
own code.

  — David