D seems interesting, but...

[Gerry Weaver]

On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 05:27:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:14:42AM +0200, Gerry Weaver wrote:
> [...]
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I checked it out. There is only a dmd.conf. I've included it 
>> below.
> [...]
>
> Strange, I have exactly the same copy of dmd.conf, and I didn't 
> see a
> problem. I copy-n-pasted your code into the same filename, etc..
>
> What version of libc6 do you have? (dpkg -p libc6) Maybe dmd is
> incompatible with older versions of libc6?
>
>
> T

Hi,

I was wondering why D doesn't just install everthing in one 
directory (ie; /opt/dlang) and look at an environment variable 
(ie; DLANG_ROOT) to source everything. It seems like it would 
make things a lot simpler. Then the package could be located 
anywhere and multiple versions could be used safely. Quite a few 
other languages have used this approach successfully. Anyway, 
just a thought.

Thanks,
-G