Installation on Ubuntu 18.04 is broken

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On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 20:07:59 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> 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.

Your failure is that D is not a major language. It's like saying 
that "No other dogs I've come across meow, why does this dog 
meow"? It's a cat stupid!! :0