It is still not possible to use D on debian/ubuntu

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 17:28 +0000, Elronnd via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 11:50:25 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> > LDC which is packaged by both Debian and Fedora is the
> > only practically usable D compiler on both these platforms.
> 
> What's impractical about downloading and installing an rpm?  For 
> that matter, downloading the source and compiling it isn't all 
> that impractical either.

Downloading and installing an RPM outside of dnf.

For you.

There is little point in debating this on these lines. Your perspective
is of a determined technical person really wanting to get moving with
something. That's great, but is a totally different perspective from
trying to gain traction and have good marketing amongst people who have
no intention of putting themselves out. From a marketing perspective if
it isn't in the aptitude (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint,…) or dnf (Fedora,
CentOS, RHEL,…) install area it doesn't exist – at least in terms of
easy traction.

The upshot of this thread is that downloads from the website should be
downgraded in profile for Linux and MacOS – Windows is just a ####
system where download is all there is (caveat Chocolatey but it has
very little traction). For MacOS (or whatever it is called this week),
there is MacPorts and Brew and everything D related should be in there.
For Debian, Fedora, Arch, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc. all D related things
should either be in the main repository for the system or (second rate
but…) in a repository that can be added to the set up. As soon as the
way of installing is "download and install" you are lost. This is not
about the keen folk, this is about the average folk.

-- 
Russel.
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