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October 22, 2015
Gravatar of Joseph Rushton WakelingPosted by Joseph Rushton WakelingReply
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I just installed the latest Ubuntu release (hence earlier rebuild of ldc;-) and out of curiosity, checked what ldc version was available in the repos.  The result (shown below) seems a bit outdated in its description to me -- surely "LDC already compiles a lot of D code, but should still be considered beta quality" is by now a terrible misrepresentation of the state of the compiler?

$ apt-cache show ldc
Package: ldc
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 27410
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:0.14.0.dfsg-1build1
Provides: d-compiler, d-v2-compiler
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libconfig++9v5, libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinfo5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)
Recommends: libphobos2-ldc-dev, libphobos2-ldc-debug
Filename: pool/universe/l/ldc/ldc_0.14.0.dfsg-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 7811352
MD5sum: 2f5c2a001b13078ebc0753b5acae8f21
SHA1: 91fccbca86337188eca3c8e66b562e6598ed6cb3
SHA256: 331330b183a9bdcfadb1c74ba99ae031297c63122f321af568236703e4e45434
Description-en: LLVM D Compiler
 LDC is a compiler for the D programming Language. It is based on the
 latest DMD frontend and uses LLVM as backend.
 .
 LDC already compiles a lot of D code, but should still be considered
 beta quality. Take a look at the tickets to get a better impression
 on what still needs to be implemented.
 .
 This is the actual ldc compiler
October 23, 2015
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On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 23:24:53 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> I just installed the latest Ubuntu release (hence earlier rebuild of ldc;-) and out of curiosity, checked what ldc version was available in the repos.  The result (shown below) seems a bit outdated in its description to me -- surely "LDC already compiles a lot of D code, but should still be considered beta quality" is by now a terrible misrepresentation of the state of the compiler?

That was the tagline on the old dsource page for ldc for a long time.  Probably the debian packager hasn't bothered to update it.