central package repository (Re: D being talked about at gcc.gnu.org (RPM))

[Anders F Björklund]

kris wrote:

>> But it depends on how many variations we want to be hosting ?
>> For the Mac I am currently hosting three PPC variants, and one
>> "Universal" X86/PPC build (that is 3 times the size of the others,
>> since it targets all of two runtime arches and two target arches)
> 
> How about just hosting the binaries? It many not be ideal, but certainly 
> very useful all the same ...

You mean just the GDC binaries ? (i.e. "cc1d" and "libphobos.a", etc)

Sure, that is the preferred variant if the system GCC wants to be nice.
(i.e. if it is of a version that works with the GDC patches and Phobos)

But it still needs one version for each distro that we want to support ?


Unless we can make that "universal" idea fly, and make one distribution
of all the GNU tools - that will work on most of the Linux X86 distros ?

Of course, the downside then would be that it probably wouldn't work
with the rest of the system libraries. But that's another issue... :-)

--anders