Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Teale
On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 17:29:21 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Has anyone investigated whether Dub is an acceptable tool for use by Debian and Fedora packagers for building Debian and Fedora packages? I would hate to start a D+GtkD project (*) using Dub only to find that Debian and Fedora wou

Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-03 Thread Russel Winder
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 14:35 +, Russel Winder wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 13:16 +, Francesco Cattoglio wrote: > > On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 18:55:46 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > > > Waf is packaged by Fedora but not Debian. > > > > On a completely unrelated side note: Waf is NOT supposed

Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-03 Thread Russel Winder
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 13:16 +, Francesco Cattoglio wrote: > On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 18:55:46 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > > Waf is packaged by Fedora but not Debian. > > On a completely unrelated side note: Waf is NOT supposed to be > packaged at all. Being distributed along with the source

Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-03 Thread Francesco Cattoglio
On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 18:55:46 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Waf is packaged by Fedora but not Debian. On a completely unrelated side note: Waf is NOT supposed to be packaged at all. Being distributed along with the sources is part of the design.

Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-03 Thread Russel Winder
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 09:49 +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: […] > Why not both? I don't know about the complexity of your project, but it > shouldn't be too much hassle to set up build scripts for both systems. Indeed, I do this for many project. […] > The main hassle I encountered was be

Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-03 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 02/03/14 19:55, Russel Winder wrote: Looks like I work with a SCons build (*) and think of switching to Dub as and when Debian and Fedora package it. Why not both? I don't know about the complexity of your project, but it shouldn't be too much hassle to set up build scripts for both system

Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-02 Thread Russel Winder
On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 17:42 +, Dicebot wrote: […] > I'd expect it to be rejected until it is in Debian repositories. > It is a common practice to require build tools only available > from main repos. Waf is packaged by Fedora but not Debian. SCons and CMake are packaged by both. Many Debian

Re: D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-02 Thread Dicebot
On Sunday, 2 March 2014 at 17:29:21 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Has anyone investigated whether Dub is an acceptable tool for use by Debian and Fedora packagers for building Debian and Fedora packages? I'd expect it to be rejected until it is in Debian repositories. It is a common practice to r

D, Dub and distributions

2014-03-02 Thread Russel Winder
Has anyone investigated whether Dub is an acceptable tool for use by Debian and Fedora packagers for building Debian and Fedora packages? I would hate to start a D+GtkD project (*) using Dub only to find that Debian and Fedora would refuse to package the project. (*) Well actually rewrite a C++