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

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On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:56:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> But if we just use dub - which _is_ the official packaging and 
> build tool - then we avoid these issues. Ideally, the compiler 
> and dub would be part of the distro, but libraries don't need 
> to be.

But that would defeat a primary goal of distros: reproducable
builds, w/o depending on downloading anything from the internet.

Distros are doing that for good reasons: saves operators from
uncountable working hours (one of *the* major reason of Linux'
success).

> And it sounds like that's basically how the Go and Rust folks 
> want to function as well.

Right. Exactly why we completely banned Go from a project
just a few days ago.


--mtx