dsimcha wrote: > == Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article >> Russel Winder wrote: >> > The game is known to be fundamentally flawed, but despite this, the >> > results have effect on the perception of programming languages. >> > >> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ >> > >> > D should compete with C, C++ and beat Go. If anyone has any time >> > perhaps a "cabal" should form to create a Bazaar/Mercurial/Git >> > repository with the various codes in it? >> The thing about that shootout is D used to be on there, until the >> maintainer of the site removed it. He refuses to include D on the >> benchmarks. > > Has he given a reason? IIRC it's because D isn't/wasn't included in the > package > repos of the distributions he uses. This will probably get fixed soon: > > Fedora already includes LDC. > > GDC is now up to date (or at most one version behind) for D1 and is > rapidly catching up for D2. > > Unfortunately, the Linux world is dominated by FOSS zealots for whom DMD > isn't > open enough. In the ideal world the DMD backend would be under an > OSI-approved license so that it could be distributed by even the most > zealously pro-FOSS distributions.
Of which there are very few. A linux distro or community repository cannot distribute dmd at all, it is prohibited by the license. This is primarily a practical issue, not an ideological one.
