[OT] LLVM Community Code of Conduct

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:55:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 16:38:29 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Fantastic!
>>
>> Could you please send a PR to upgrade 
>> http://dlang.org/download.html so it lists the iOS and (later) 
>> Android downloads? Even I didn't know ldc has an iOS download! 
>> -- Andrei
>
> Will do.  Support for both platforms is at the alpha stage, but 
> doesn't hurt to get more hands on them, and the fact that 
> pretty much all of the druntime and phobos tests pass mean 
> they're in reasonably good shape.

I wish the extent of platform support for GDC and LDC was 
clearer. I decided not to list any platforms on D's download page 
unless support for those platforms was rock-solid and is expected 
to work.

At least at that time, iOS and Android support, as I understood 
it, was in the "well, if you download this thing some guy 
uploaded to his personal website and patch that file and don't do 
this thing which doesn't work yet, you might get a "hello world" 
that runs from the terminal if you SSH in" ballpark. I'm not sure 
we should be advertising support for any platform at that level. 
Personally, I feel that if a platform/architecture is listed on a 
language's download page, I should be able to download the 
compiler and build a fully-working application within a few 
minutes, and as I understand we are nowhere close to that yet. I 
don't feel particularly strong about this, but if we do decide to 
lower the bar, then we should reconsider all the other platforms 
that have been left out (such as the long list of GDC 
architectures which I understood Iain to say that, well, since 
the build succeeds and Debian successfully packages it, then it 
has to work. I might be wrong, though, which is my point exactly 
- there is really insufficient information about what exactly one 
can expect to work on each platform/architecture (and their 
combinations).