Joseph Wakeling Wrote:

> > I *am* the D Packagers team in Ubuntu and Debian - it is only me
> > (for the moment). :-)
> 
> I did not see your name here ... :-) https://launchpad.net/~d-language-packagers
> 

Oh I see, glad we sorted out that confusion then (I thought you were referring to the Deb maintainers for a moment there).

In that case then, to answer your original question, I can see no reason why not in the long term. But first and foremost, I would have thought that the initial goals would be to first get it running with gcc-4.4 (if ever) and gcc-4.5. Then start expanding to other areas for a short while.

However, I certainly do not dictate the direction of upstream. I merely package and see over fix arch specific bugs that arise.

> ... and many thanks for your work.  I'm very glad to see D making it into Debian and Ubuntu.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
>     -- Joe

Regards
Iain

Dear Iain,

I finally got round to installing gdc-4.3 from your PPA and had a try. Unfortunately, first thing I ran into an error while compiling:

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/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
function
std.random.UniformDistribution!(double,boundaries).UniformDistribution.opCall
(double a, double b) does not match parameter types
(double,MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18))
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (b) of type
MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18)
to double
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The same code compiles without a whisper with dmd so I'm guessing this is an error in Phobos 2.015 ... ?

Best wishes,

    -- Joe

Joseph Wakeling Wrote:

> Dear Iain,
> 
> I finally got round to installing gdc-4.3 from your PPA and had a try. Unfortunately, first thing I ran into an error while compiling:
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
> function
> std.random.UniformDistribution!(double,boundaries).UniformDistribution.opCall
> (double a, double b) does not match parameter types
> (double,MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18))
> /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
> Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (b) of type
> MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18)
> to double
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> The same code compiles without a whisper with dmd so I'm guessing this is an error in Phobos 2.015 ... ?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
>     -- Joe

Does dmd-2.015 compile the code correctly?

I have not used D2, to be honest, but from the errors emitted, looks like you are calling a function with incompatible datatypes as arguments.

Regards