LDC blacklisted in Ubuntu

[Sean Kelly]

On Sep 27, 2012, at 12:20 AM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 9/27/2012 12:02 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> On 27 September 2012 03:14, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> #4 there implies it's a source package, though I could be mis-interpreting
>>> you.  Is there a path for externally built binary packages?  That's fairly
>>> counter to the general distribution philosophy for most of them, so I'm
>>> giong to guess no.
>>> 
>> 
>> For #4, yes.  Ubuntu is a better platform to approach for externally
>> built binary-only packages.  But for debian, you could possibly do
>> something similar to how eg: the flash-plugin installer package works
>> - downloads the tar.gz/zip from an external site, extract and install
>> / configure in system.
> 
> On reflection, #4 is not going to work for dmd.. neither ubuntu nor debian, nor most distributions are going to be happy
> with the license situation.  Nor are they happy with binary only packages anyway.  The right path is to do #4 but only
> for use on the dlang.org site (hosted via github's downloads api).  Then, add step #5 which is to automate source
> bundling and pushing to distributions.

I think you're probably right, but it's worth noting that the Ubuntu install asks whether to install a set of proprietary software at some point.  So the thought of a DMD package available to Ubuntu users somehow seems entirely reasonable.