gdc in Linux distros recommended?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 16:03:32 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On 10/20/2016 08:21 AM, ketmar wrote:
>> On Thursday, 20 October 2016 at 05:43:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
>> wrote:
>>> Not sure what your point is here. If you're writing a library 
>>> and want
>>> to avoid giving your users deprecation messages due to the 
>>> import
>>> changes, then you need to test on 2.070 or newer. Clean 
>>> compilation on
>>> pre-2.070 does not guarantee clean compilation on 2.070+.
>>
>> actually, any import deprecation messages may come only from 
>> sloppy
>> coding, like using "implicitly imported identifier from 3rd 
>> module".
>> tbh, none of my code ever triggered such a warning when DMD 
>> finally
>> (almost) fixed it's import scheme. not 'cause i am a 
>> brilliant, but
>> 'cause doing it "D way" (local selective imports in the 
>> closest scope)
>> almost automatically prevents such bugs.
>
> I hit tons of messages, mostly because of FQN now being more 
> broken than ever.

that's why i added "(almost)" part. there was another word, but i 
did self-censoring.