On Saturday, 4 February 2012 at 17:14:41 UTC, Jesse Phillips
wrote:
On Saturday, 4 February 2012 at 16:52:04 UTC, Zachary Lund
wrote:
Arch Linux chose to remove the D1 package and add the D2
package and not keep both simply because of the retarded name
incompatibilities.
That just seems silly. The package builder can make the binary
name whatever they choose. And from the Linux side it makes
even less sense because it is extremely common. gcc, is it GCC
4.7, 3.2, 8.5, 967, clang? No, it is a symbolic link to
whatever you want.
This is what hive have DDebber[1] doing, though because of your
previous post I see that I got the version naming of libphobos2
wrong. I was going to develop it further to package Tango and
allow v1 and 2 to install together, but such effort appears
less and less important.
The difference is that gcc is supposed to be interchangeable. The
same can't be said for dmd1 and dmd2. While the results are
sometimes different with different binaries of gcc, the idea is
that it shouldn't be.
Basically, what happened was D said, "dmd isn't similar to dmd,
but keeping the name dmd makes sense".
