Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[simendsjo]

On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 22:53:39 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 20:32:51 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 18:19:26 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24.09.2013 19:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 9/22/13 7:05 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 21.09.2013 13:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>> Preapproved. Looking forward to the appropriate pull 
>>>>>> request. Rainer?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrei
>>>>>
>>>>> I have created pull requests
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/384 
>>>>> and
>>>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/385
>>>>>
>>>>> the result can be seen here:
>>>>> http://rainers.github.io/visuald/download.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Should we add links to Mono-D and DDT aswell?
>>>>
>>>> I think so.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, will add these. Bruno and Alex, is it ok for you? What 
>>> are the appropriate links? Are there any direct download 
>>> links?
>>>
>>
>> One little problem. MonoDevelop isn't always up to date on 
>> various repos. Because of this, Alexander builds his own 
>> version. This precompiled package is hosted at my server. 
>> While I don't reboot it very often, it is perhaps not the best 
>> place to store this if it's "part" of D by being placed on the 
>> homepage. I would recommend hosting the MonoDevelop build as 
>> well so no user comes complaining if my server is down.
>
> I actually think Mono-D must chose one long term support 
> MonoDevelop version before being officially endorsed. Currently 
> I am not aware of a single distro where it will work out of the 
> box with stock MonoDevelop and forcing people to use that blob 
> or compile from sources does not really smell good. I know this 
> is much stress on Alex but simply don't see other way around.

The problem as I understand it is that distros pack different 
versions of MD, and MD keeps changing it's API for every release. 
In other words - there is no long-term support. Mono-D needs to 
either support the latest and greatest and prepare a MD release 
each time the API changes, or try to support as many API versions 
as possible. I think the latter is problematic.