Hello all,
In the absence of any reports of problems with the current LDC
snap package, I've released it to the stable release channel.
This means that it should now be possible to install it with the
command:
sudo snap install --classic ldc2
where the --classic flag is necessary in order to grant the
access permissions the snap package needs to do its work.
Existing users wishing to ensure they will use this stable
package release should refresh their installation:
sudo snap refresh --classic --stable ldc2
The package provides LDC 1.1.1 (based on the DMD 2.071.2
frontend) and uses LLVM 3.9.1 as the backend. It is expected to
work on any distribution with a sufficiently up-to-date snapd
package. In practice this means at least:
* Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04
* Debian Testing and Unstable
* OpenSUSE Leap 42.2
-- Known issues ---
The package is not expected to work on Arch Linux for the time
being due to some issues with the snapd package currently
available.
Link-time optimization (i.e. the -flto flag) is expected to work
only on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04. Since this is in any case
an experimental feature, this partial support has been tolerated
for the current release.
-- Upcoming development releases ---
With a stable package now available, the `edge` and `beta`
release channels will soon be used to make releases related to
the upcoming 1.2.0 release. Some planned updates include:
* supporting architectures other than amd64
* upgrading LLVM to 4.0
The `edge` channel will publish every individual update to the
development branch of the package. Development packages will be
upgraded to the `beta` channel once they have been shown to work
on multiple distributions. Once LDC 1.2.0 is officially
released, the package will move towards the `candidate` and
`stable` channels once more.
You can check which release channel your current install is
tracking using the command
snap info ldc2
... and looking at the `tracking:` field. You can switch which
channel you are tracking by using the `snap refresh` command (see
the beginning of this post) and choosing the channel using the
corresponding flag: --stable, --candidate, --beta or --edge (in
increasing order of instability:-)
For more information on snap package release channels, see:
https://snapcraft.io/docs/reference/channels
Hope this package proves useful to people!
Best wishes,
-- Joe
