How to simplyfy "getting started" ? Installation desciption at dlang suboptimal.

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 27 10:27:31 PST 2016


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:23:13PM +0100, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Both myself and the GCC maintainers are keen on this.  We have a D
> compiler, but only a handful of (obsolete) software that uses it.
> 
> I have source packages for dub, dustmite, digger and dscanner.  I
> probably need a couple of things to do with them first.
> 
> 1. Confirm licensing with authors (Debian policy requires that all sources
> and documentation distributed are covered by a license IIRC).

Debian policy requires a DFSG-compliant license. As long as we have
that, it can go into the main repo.


> 2. Peer review

I can help test it, since I'm using Debian.


> 3. Submit to Debian/Ubuntu.

I can also help with uploading, if necessary. But probably that's the
least of your worries right now. :-P


T

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