Whilst DMD seems to be in MacPorts, GDC and LDC appear not to be. Is this right? If it is then it is wrong – it would be great if the person handling the DMD port could be supported to get a LDC and GDC ports in place.

I am a user of MacOS maybe once per year, but I'll help as I can.

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 18:03:22 UTC, lanphuonglien wrote:
> Whilst DMD seems to be in MacPorts, GDC and LDC appear not to be. Is this right? If it is then it is wrong – it would be great if the person handling the DMD port could be supported to get a LDC and GDC ports in place.
>
> I am a user of MacOS maybe once per year, but I'll help as I can.

If you aren't set on MacPorts, you can use homebrew for ldc.
With regards to gdc: A word of caution: Supporting it as a separate package is a bit of a hassle, since it technically lives as part of the main gcc codebase (and you actually compile gcc with the D frontend enabled).

On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 22:55:20 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 18:03:22 UTC, lanphuonglien wrote:
>> Whilst DMD seems to be in MacPorts, GDC and LDC appear not to be. Is this right? If it is then it is wrong – it would be great if the person handling the DMD port could be supported to get a LDC and GDC ports in place.
>>
>> I am a user of MacOS maybe once per year, but I'll help as I can.
>
> If you aren't set on MacPorts, you can use homebrew for ldc.
> With regards to gdc: A word of caution: Supporting it as a separate package is a bit of a hassle, since it technically lives as part of the main gcc codebase (and you actually compile gcc with the D frontend enabled).

I currently use MacPorts. The latest available version of DMD on MacPorts is also outdated (2.0.73.2 vs 2.0.75.1). How can I request to get the latest version into the MacPorts repositories?

On Saturday, 26 August 2017 at 15:28:32 UTC, MacPortsUser wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 at 22:55:20 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> If you aren't set on MacPorts, you can use homebrew for ldc.
>> With regards to gdc: A word of caution: Supporting it as a separate package is a bit of a hassle, since it technically lives as part of the main gcc codebase (and you actually compile gcc with the D frontend enabled).
>
> I currently use MacPorts. The latest available version of DMD on MacPorts is also outdated (2.0.73.2 vs 2.0.75.1). How can I request to get the latest version into the MacPorts repositories?

No idea, I've never used MacPorts.