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Would a DSpin or DLab for Fedora make sense?
Oct 09, 2015
tim
Oct 11, 2015
Idan Arye
Oct 13, 2015
bioinfornatics
October 09, 2015
Would a DSpin or DLab for Fedora make sense?
i.e. a Linux build with most of the D stuff preinstalled.

What is Fedora Labs?
Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations.

What is Fedora Labs?
Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations.

I think Debian has something similar called Blends.

I assume most of the major Linux versions have something similar.
October 11, 2015
On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 18:10:59 UTC, tim wrote:
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> Would a DSpin or DLab for Fedora make sense?
> i.e. a Linux build with most of the D stuff preinstalled.
>
> What is Fedora Labs?
> Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations.
>
> What is Fedora Labs?
> Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations.
>
> I think Debian has something similar called Blends.
>
> I assume most of the major Linux versions have something similar.

I doubt it'll be a good idea. These bundles seem to target areas of interest, never specific languages. You can see bundles geared towards graphic designers or gamers, but not ones for C++ or Java developers.

I think the reason is that the purpose of these bundles is to attract people to install the distribution. "Are you a sound editor? We have something just for you - Fedora Jam!". This doesn't work the other way around - nobody will start editing music just because Fedora offers Fedora Jam...

Also, Fedora Labs is quite a commitment - in order to use one, you have to reinstall the OS. This is OK if you are an enthusiastic considering a switch to Linux and being offered a distribution flavor modified specifically for you hobby, but programmers usually expect languages to work on whatever OS they'll choose to use(.NET developers choose to ignore the existence of non-Windows operation systems :-P).

Existing D developers won't install a new OS just to use D, because it's a lot of trouble and they can already use D just find in their current setups. We can't attract new D developers that way either - convincing someone to try D is hard enough without trying to get them to install a new OS!


So, a bundle dedicated to D is not a good idea, but it can be nice if we can get D into the existing bundles. For example, if we can get D into Fedora Scientific, it can get science programmers to try D for their science programs. Of course, for that we need to convince the maintainers that D is good for science...
October 13, 2015
On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 13:27:12 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 18:10:59 UTC, tim wrote:
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> I doubt it'll be a good idea. These bundles seem to target areas of interest, never specific languages. You can see bundles geared towards graphic designers or gamers, but not ones for C++ or Java developers.
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> [...]

Fedora provides already A programming environment
I am the packager
Any help are welcome