On 06/18/2013 03:36 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:54:30 +0200
"Tyler Jameson Little" <beatgam...@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyway, used to be on Fedora and I also loved the D support. Most
Debian-based distros seem to be a bit behind the times for D
support. Perhaps there aren't a lot of D users on Debian Sid? I
haven't ever had a good experience with D on Debian and I usually
end up recompiling from source.
DMD's prebuilt zip releases always worked out-of-the-box on Debian for
me.
DMD's prebuilt deb releases have always worked out-of-the-box on every
Debian-based distro I've tried it.
And there is a debian repository that *mostly* works out-of-the-box
(meaning dmd works, but the other packages (vibe.d, dub,...) might not
work, depending on your distro..
http://code.google.com/p/d-apt/wiki/APT_Repository
I've bitched at people before for creating distro-dependent packages,
but D has been very good about "just working." I'm pretty pleased with
the level of compatibility that the current packages exhibit.
The debian package has worked for me on:
Linux Mint, Linux Mint Debian, Debian oldstable, Debian Stable, Debian
Testing, Debian Unstable, Ubuntu, etc.
I don't know who does the packaging, but based on the amount of
incompatibilities that other projects have, I think the packagers
deserve a round of applause.
