gdc-4.5 testing

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Lutger Blijdestijn wrote:
>>> I uploaded the packages to SourceForge, if anyone else
>>> wants to try them... It's made for Fedora 14 (x86_64):
>>
>> Thnx, installs and works fine for a few quick tests. Would be great to
>> see the first D2 compiler in the next fedora release, and debian / ubuntu
>> too of course. Great work!
>>
> 
> So that would be two different requests, the first is making
> a new package for D2 and the second is upgrading to GCC 4.6...
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GCC46
> 
> I believe that Ubuntu are sticking with GCC 4.5.x for Natty,
> or at least 4.5.1 is what is in the current Alpha 1 release ?
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/gcc
> 
> The current "dmd" packages have an issue with /usr/bin/dmd
> and /usr/include/d/dmd conflicts between 1.0xx and 2.0yy RPM,
> even if /usr/lib/libphobos.a and /usr/lib/libphobos2.a don't.
> Any packages for GDC using D2 would have the same problem...
> 
> But it should be possible to use shims and symlinks to make
> both installable, at least that's how it works on Mac OS X ?
> A bigger problem is finding more developers for GCC46 and D2,
> or perhaps upgrading LDC/Tango to D2 in the case of Fedora ?
> 
> --anders

Yes, it requires some thought and manpower obviously. I'm not a packager, I 
don't what exactly is proper way to do it, but Fedora already packages 
python 2.x and python 3.x side by side, so perhaps that is a start. For 
Fedora I think D2 could be positioned as an alternative to mono in the long 
run, it fits the distro very well.