https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.12-Released

On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 20:03:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.12-Released

I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Windows 10.

$sudo apt info gdc
Package: gdc
Version: 4:10.0-1ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Source: gcc-defaults (1.185.1ubuntu2)
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 41.0 kB
Depends: gdc-10 (>= 10-20200307-0ubuntu1~), libgphobos-dev (= 10.0-1ubuntu2)
Replaces: gdc-4.1 (<< 0.25-4.1.2-18), gdc-4.2 (<< 0.25-4.2.2-7), gdc-4.3 (<< 1:1.043-4.3.4-1)
Download-Size: 5260 B
APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
Description: D compiler (language version 2), based on the GCC backend
 This is a dependency package providing the default D compiler.
 Per policy, all packages that contain D sources must use this package
 in their Build-Depends line.
 .
 This compiler supports D language version 2.

On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 20:03:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.12-Released

I'm one of the DLang maintainers for Alpine - please feel free to open issues at https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues if you notice something being broken.
Unfortunately *some* C bindings in core aren't quite up to speed on musl yet but I try to add those when I notice that they're missing, but filing an issue about that (or making a PR to core to add the bindings) would be of great help!

Also thanks to @geod24 who made this happen and did most of the hard work :)

On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 20:30:09 UTC, Cogitri wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 20:03:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.12-Released
>
> I'm one of the DLang maintainers for Alpine - please feel free to open issues at https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues if you notice something being broken.
> Unfortunately *some* C bindings in core aren't quite up to speed on musl yet but I try to add those when I notice that they're missing, but filing an issue about that (or making a PR to core to add the bindings) would be of great help!
>
> Also thanks to @geod24 who made this happen and did most of the hard work :)

Great work.
Which compilers (and versions) are available?

-Johan

On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 21:48:32 UTC, Johan wrote:
>
> Great work.
> Which compilers (and versions) are available?
>
> -Johan

Looks like dmd [1], ldc [2], and gdc [3] are all there.

[1] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/dmd
[2] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/ldc
[3] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/gdmd

On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 21:48:32 UTC, Johan wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 20:30:09 UTC, Cogitri wrote:
>> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 20:03:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.12-Released
>>
>> I'm one of the DLang maintainers for Alpine - please feel free to open issues at https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues if you notice something being broken.
>> Unfortunately *some* C bindings in core aren't quite up to speed on musl yet but I try to add those when I notice that they're missing, but filing an issue about that (or making a PR to core to add the bindings) would be of great help!
>>
>> Also thanks to @geod24 who made this happen and did most of the hard work :)
>
> Great work.
> Which compilers (and versions) are available?
>
> -Johan

All 3 compilers.  The version will be frozen for the next 6 months, but that just means a 2 to 3 releases support period, so it's not an issue IMO.

There are still some small issues to iron out, and there's still no support for LTO out of the box (although one can compile it), but we've been using it for ~8 months and it works quite well. Also some of those issues are Musl specific and not related to Dlang, e.g. https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/11154

Initial announcement: https://forum.dlang.org/post/oznltcuropwzxaakptdy@forum.dlang.org
Looking at it, all the "What's next?" have been done too :)