On Monday, 12 December 2011 at 20:36:04 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 12 December 2011 20:17, F i L <witte2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Any chance we might see a GDC Fedora .rpm at some point? I'm
relatively new
to Linux in general but I use Fedora because it has LDC D2 in
the software
center and comes with a clean Gnome Shell (my favorite DE) by
default. If I
had more experience I'd try to build one myself, only I just
got GDC to
compile a month ago and I still don't know how to install it
(like the LDC
is installed) so I think I'm a bit too green just yet. GCC
seems to yield
better overall runtime performance than LLVM so I'd like to
easily be able
to use GDC with Mono-D without having to Bash "export
PATH=$PATH:/opt/gdc/bin" or remember not to delete the gdc
folder out of my
Home directory.
Fedora requires that GDC be on the current release that they are
shipping in rawhide (which currently would be 4.7 pre-release)
- as
there is no (actively maintained) port for that, they probably
won't
ship. The same issue is with gcc-pascal too, to which only
supports
4.1.
Sorry, I'm still a bit confused. Are you saying you'd have to
wait until Fedora 17 to release GDC on that distro (due to
aggressive regulations)? Or simply that no one is actively
maintaining a repository for it right now?
Sorry for what's probably an obvious question. Like I said, I'm
new to Linux. On one hand I really like the way Linux distros
provide user friendly software centers. On the other, it's
annoying how apparently fragmented, disconnected, and out-of-date
they are from one another.
