On 9 July 2014 23:48, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 7/9/2014 2:52 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> >>> The dlang page doesn't list all downloads or distribution packages, but >>> I don't want to duplicate information on two pages and keep them >>> synchronized and up-to-date. >> >> >> That strikes me like a suboptimal metric to optimize for. >> >>> I think there's lots of valuable information on the wiki btw, which is >>> often overlooked for some reason. For contributors, wiki.dlang.org is >>> much nicer as you don't need ddoc, git, push rights/somebody to merge >>> pull requests, etc. >> >> >> dlang.org is authoritative. Again optimizing for ease of contribution is >> nice >> but the real prize is propagating information to the end user. > > > +1 and I want to emphasize that I could find no mention of Dustmite on > dlang.org. > > Now, for gdc and ldc. Go to dlang.org. Where do I go? I click on "Downloads > & Tools". This takes me to: > > https://dlang.org/download.html > > Where are there any instructions? There's a bunch of links to binaries. I > see nothing for LDC. I see nothing for DMD. I see a link on the left to "GDC > D Compiler". Clicking on that, I see nothing mentioning that I can get it on > Ubuntu with: > > sudo apt-get install gdc >
'sudo apt-get install' is so old school. Why don't we cut out the middle-man (the terminal) and click this link: apt://gdc
