The D ecosystem in Debian with free-as-in-freedom DMD

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 18:46:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> Hmm.  I guess there's no easy way to make dmd/ldc emit 
> dependencies with modified SONAMEs?  So yeah, you're right, 
> every software that depends on said libraries would have to 
> explicitly depend on a different SONAME depending on what they 
> were built with.  OK, crazy idea, nevermind. :-(

Doesn't sounds that crazy; you already do it with GCC versions, 
right?  (Debian _does_ have something like that, right?  Where 
you can pick your C compiler.)

-Wyatt