gdc in Linux distros recommended?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 18 October 2016 at 23:31:42 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

> That's not a very convincing argument IMO. DMD packages are 
> available for download on this site. As I have learned the hard 
> way, the experience isn't always the best when you rely on 
> distro packagers. I once had to change distros because of a 
> package maintainer that didn't care that things were broken. I 
> would much rather rely on a project's own packages, because 
> there is an incentive to make sure they work, they won't get 
> abandoned, and the latest version is always available. There is 
> no sense in which DMD is not available to the masses.

According to this page
https://gdcproject.org/downloads/
there are only distro packages for Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch. If 
that's accurate, there really is no sense in which GDC is more 
available than DMD.