Include D standard library source with packaged releases?

[kinke]

On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 01:11:03 UTC, Jon Degenhardt 
wrote:
> I'm wondering if LDC packaged releases should include source 
> for D standard libraries (druntime, phobos). This would enable 
> the ldc-build-runtime tool to operate without downloading the 
> library source for the release as a separate step.

Hey Jon, the main reasons are:

- The runtime libraries also include profile-rt and jit-rt, which 
are part of the main LDC repo.
- The essential runtimes CMake script is part of the main LDC 
repo since it covers all runtime libraries.

An LDC distribution comes with _nearly_ all of the 
druntime/Phobos source already (the imports) - druntime's `rt` 
directory is missing for example (not meant to be imported from 
user code, but compiled-in).

So adding more source files just to please alternative packaging 
systems is not really something I'd be fond of.