I'm using Gentoo Linux as a primary OS. It would be useful to create an ebuild (gentoo program installer - similar to rpm, deb, .msi etc.) for the DMD / GDC. This would help Gentoo users a lot since the program installations on Gentoo are automatically updated using ebuilds.

Unfortunately there are some license & fetch restriction issues with commercial software ebuilds. I'm not a lawyer so I need to investigate this a bit deeper. This also requires someone to write new ebuilds for the future versions of DMD / GDC. I'm a bit busy during the summer.

Feel free to comment the idea.


Jari-Matti

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:

> I'm using Gentoo Linux as a primary OS. 
[...]
> Feel free to comment the idea.

Gentoo ebuilds has been available for years...

DMD: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46806
GDC: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48136

Bug the Gentoo guys on how they can go further.

--anders

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Gentoo ebuilds has been available for years...
> 
> DMD: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46806
> GDC: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48136
> 
> Bug the Gentoo guys on how they can go further.
> 
> --anders

Sorry, somehow I forgot we have bugs.gentoo.org. I hope they will add it to the portage tree soon too.