Cool Stuff for D that we keep Secret

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/9/14, 2:46 PM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:21:21 -0700
> schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:
>
>> It fits in
>> quite nicely with my previous antics at discovering there were no
>> links to gdc or ldc instructions, and no mention anywhere that to get
>> gdc on Ubuntu, one only needs to type:
>>
>>      sudo apt-get install gdc
>>
>> All you guys building stuff - it's all WASTED EFFORT if you don't
>> make it findable by users. /rant
>
> We link all linux distribution packages from
> http://gdcproject.org/downloads/
> and I'd expect a linux user to know how to install a package for his
> distribution if he knows the package name.
>
> It's also mentioned on http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC and
> http://dlang.org/download.html links to
> http://gdcproject.org/downloads/ as well.
>
> The dlang page doesn't list all downloads or distribution packages, but
> I don't want to duplicate information on two pages and keep them
> synchronized and up-to-date.

That strikes me like a suboptimal metric to optimize for.

> I think there's lots of valuable information on the wiki btw, which is
> often overlooked for some reason. For contributors, wiki.dlang.org is
> much nicer as you don't need ddoc, git, push rights/somebody to merge
> pull requests, etc.

dlang.org is authoritative. Again optimizing for ease of contribution is 
nice but the real prize is propagating information to the end user.


Andrei