On Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 15:19:13 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>>
>> * Based on D 2.077.1.
>> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
>> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>>
>> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>>
>> Thanks to all contributors!
>
> Hey, thanks for your great work! Would it be possible to add a armhf build to the release? If you can not do it yourself, could you please point me to some resources where I can find out about how to create such a release build myself? Thank you!

See https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source

On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 04:45:49 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 15:19:13 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
>> On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Hey, thanks for your great work! Would it be possible to add a armhf build to the release? If you can not do it yourself, could you please point me to some resources where I can find out about how to create such a release build myself? Thank you!
>
> See https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source

You can also use the armhf build of ldc 1.6, even if just to build 1.7 yourself:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.6.0

On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 05:31:28 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 04:45:49 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
>> On Saturday, 20 January 2018 at 15:19:13 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
>>> Hey, thanks for your great work! Would it be possible to add a armhf build to the release? If you can not do it yourself, could you please point me to some resources where I can find out about how to create such a release build myself? Thank you!
>>
>> See https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source
>
> You can also use the armhf build of ldc 1.6, even if just to build 1.7 yourself:
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.6.0

Please note that building a release package isn't identical to just build from source; there are subtle diffs and additional steps to be undertaken. I hope we get an ARM CI box soon and can automate the armhf package generation as well.

In the meantime, I started an LLVM 5.0.1 build in my qemu emulator 12 hours ago; one third has been compiled so far, so you may expect the armhf package to be available tomorrow or the day after that.

On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 12:00:32 UTC, kinke wrote:
[...]
>
> Please note that building a release package isn't identical to just build from source; there are subtle diffs and additional steps to be undertaken. I hope we get an ARM CI box soon and can automate the armhf package generation as well.
>
> In the meantime, I started an LLVM 5.0.1 build in my qemu emulator 12 hours ago; one third has been compiled so far, so you may expect the armhf package to be available tomorrow or the day after that.

That is great news to me, thank you very much for your effort!

On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 15:38:02 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 12:00:32 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> In the meantime, I started an LLVM 5.0.1 build in my qemu emulator 12 hours ago; one third has been compiled so far, so you may expect the armhf package to be available tomorrow or the day after that.
>
> That is great news to me, thank you very much for your effort!

You're welcome; it's up now.

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.077.1.
> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Ubuntu 16.04 still has version 1.0.0 in its repository. Why is it not updated anymore?

On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:37:08 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 January 2018 at 01:19:14 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.7. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>>
>> * Based on D 2.077.1.
>> * Catching C++ exceptions supported on Linux and Windows.
>> * LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v5.0.1.
>>
>> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.7.0
>>
>> Thanks to all contributors!
>
> Ubuntu 16.04 still has version 1.0.0 in its repository. Why is it not updated anymore?

Sorry. its Compiler version 1.1.1 based on dmd v2.071.2, LLVM 3.9.1. I expected compiler version 1.7.0 which is the latest.

On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:42:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
> [...] Ubuntu 16.04
This is a long-term support distribution.
Don't expect those to have actual tip versions of any SW package!
They rely on stabe versions that don't have the latest features
but only those very well tested.

On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 07:40:10 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:42:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> [...] Ubuntu 16.04
> This is a long-term support distribution.
> Don't expect those to have actual tip versions of any SW package!
> They rely on stabe versions that don't have the latest features
> but only those very well tested.

The semver 1.7 is not an unstable package. Its that their reason for no updates?

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 09:38:26 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Monday, 29 January 2018 at 07:40:10 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 January 2018 at 21:42:49 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> [...] Ubuntu 16.04
>> This is a long-term support distribution.
>> Don't expect those to have actual tip versions of any SW package!
>> They rely on stabe versions that don't have the latest features
>> but only those very well tested.
>
> The semver 1.7 is not an unstable package. Its that their reason for no updates?

I don't know their exact update policy, but generally the Long-Term support distros tend to have rather old packages for a lot of sw. I think they update only stuff for which security problems were fixed and everything that depends on those, and that's it.