D for scripting?

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 13:53 +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 January 2017 at 12:45:26 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > The "problem" here is the role of the D Tools repository. Is it 
> > solely for DMD, or is it supposed to be something that can be 
> > packaged independent of a particular D compiler. As it is I am 
> > not sure it can be the unit of packaging.
> 
> Some time ago I have been packaging tools from that repo build 
> with LDC in Arch Linux, it is trivially doable (see 
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?
> h=packages/dtools#n26).

Perhaps we can convince the people packaging LDC for Debian and Fedora
to do the equivalent for those distributions?

-- 
Russel.
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