Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 09/09/13 09:58, Russel Winder wrote:
> Debian Unstable has Monodevelop 4.0.5, which means it should be in
> Ubuntu 14.04 by default.

I'm reasonably sure it'll be in Ubuntu 13.10 by default too.  I'll probably try 
it out then.

> 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.

I'd add Ubuntu also to that list, simply because of the number of users -- it's 
helpful to ensure that every 6 months, such a widely-used distro has the latest 
D tools.