Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 20:48 +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
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> One thing that could help with MonoD would be if it could effectively support 
> more than the most recent stable version of MonoDevelop.  Version 3.0 is still 
> the one used in many Linux distros.  (4.0 is currently in the "proposed" updates 
> for Ubuntu 13.10, which means it'll probably be the default by the time 13.10 is 
> released.)

Debian Unstable has Monodevelop 4.0.5, which means it should be in
Ubuntu 14.04 by default. 

> If VisualD can support VS 2010, 2011 and 2013, it's surely possible for MonoD to 
> do something similar.
> 
> I recognize that the developer has provided an Ubuntu PPA for the latest 
> MonoDevelop among other resources, but it's preferable not to oblige users to 
> add extra archives to their distro.

This is an important issue for take up. If something isn't in the main
repository of the distribution and requires lots of other things also
not in the main distribution then it may get take up from "bleeding
edge" folk but it will not get mainstream take up. The Ubuntu PPA is
useful for the Ubuntu distributions but of no use to Debian, Mint,
Fedora, RHEL, Arch, OS X. (Windows is just beyond the pale ;-)

Getting things into the main Debian, Fedora and Arch repositories seems
like the best way of maximizing take up in the Linux community. Getting
things into MacPorts and HomeBrew (the former for me), maximizes take up
in the OS X community, even if DMG files are provided. 

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