Installation on Ubuntu 18.04 is broken
bachmeier
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Fri Jun 1 20:07:59 UTC 2018
On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 16:41:21 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> I would file a bug, but I don't have time to dig into this now,
> and it would just sit there with no response for six months
> anyway.
>
> I cannot find a way to get std.net.curl to work with Ubuntu
> 18.04. Details can be found here:
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/bug-18649-3@https.issues.dlang.org%2F
> but that only lets you install the package without having a
> broken package management system. It resolves nothing wrt
> actually being able to use curl, which is part of the standard
> library, and should be expected to work.
>
> I tried using the install script, but that leads to this bug
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18808
> which was filed more than a month ago and still hasn't received
> a response.
>
> This experiment with having a new release every couple of weeks
> was fun, but can we please be realistic about our resources,
> and move to a sensible schedule. D is simply not an option in
> situations that require reliability. And all the various
> deprecations and language changes that are inserted in these
> high-frequency releases (changes of arbitrary size can come
> with little warning in *any* release) make it that much more
> difficult.
I think this was resolved by installing libcurl4-gnutls-dev,
removing the existing dmd, and reinstalling. Whatever the problem
was, this does not create a good impression. We have to stop
releasing so often. No other major language that I've used has
problems like this.
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