On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 11:55 +0000, Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > That's the problem I would like to see addressed (but given > Walter's comment, it won't be feasible to resolve it in the near > future). > We could simply do away with "don't use distro packages for your > D programming", at least that's what Go recommends.
The Go community advice against platform packages is principally because they want up-to-date packages on old distributions. Most programming languages are going this route, used programming language tools and libraries are decreasingly packaged by the OS. Given things like Anaconda and PyPI, all the Fedora and Debian Python packaging is increasingly wasted – except for those packages used by the distribution itself. So I can see Fedora and Debian packaging Python and some bits and pieces, but otherwise it's not needed. Same is true for Ruby, Go, Groovy, Java, etc. Debian and Fedora really do need to reassess their packaging strategy with respect to software development. Far too much effort is going into packaging when rolling release is far better handled by language specific systems. Go is going this route, Python likewise. I suggest getting the compilers onto the distributions as a marketing thing not as a real use thing. For me the way Rust works by having it's own shell-based installer is the right way of installing languages. SDKMAN! is an even more extensive system for all JVM-related systems. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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