Thread overview
Facebook places two bounties on LDC issues
Feb 12, 2014
John J
Feb 13, 2014
Kai Nacke
Feb 13, 2014
Dejan Lekic
Feb 13, 2014
Russel Winder
Feb 13, 2014
Dicebot
Feb 13, 2014
Kai Nacke
Feb 14, 2014
Dejan Lekic
February 12, 2014
$150: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package

$250: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken

Both bounties expire in 6 months.


Andrei
February 12, 2014
On 02/12/2014 01:13 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> $150:
> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package
>
> $250:
> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken
>
> Both bounties expire in 6 months.
>

Glad to see Facebook increasing the bounties.
February 13, 2014
On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 06:14:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> $150: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package
>
> $250: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken
>
> Both bounties expire in 6 months.
>
>
> Andrei

Great!!! Thank you very much!

Regards,
Kai
February 13, 2014
On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 06:14:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> $150: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package
>
> $250: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken
>
> Both bounties expire in 6 months.
>
>
> Andrei

LDC on Fedora is outdated as well... :) I will do something about it soon.
February 13, 2014
On 2/13/14, 3:31 AM, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 06:14:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> $150:
>> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package
>>
>> $250:
>> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken
>>
>> Both bounties expire in 6 months.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Great!!! Thank you very much!
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Let's do good on these and I'll try to obtain more funds.

Andrei

February 13, 2014
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 17:16 +0000, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 06:14:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > $150: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package
> >
> > $250: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken
> >
> > Both bounties expire in 6 months.
> >
> >
> > Andrei
> 
> LDC on Fedora is outdated as well... :) I will do something about it soon.

There should be a push to get DMD, GDC, LDC, Dub, Vibe.d and all associated technologies as up to date as possible in Debian and Fedora. But I can only make the call and help by using and reporting errors, I am not in a position to investigate official Debian or Fedora packaging — though I can possibly act as a support test packager if that helps.

Having such old D technology in Debian and Fedora has to be seen as an embarrassment, but also an opportunity since the packages are there to be updated.

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February 13, 2014
On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 17:16:30 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 06:14:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> $150: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package
>>
>> $250: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken
>>
>> Both bounties expire in 6 months.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> LDC on Fedora is outdated as well... :) I will do something about it soon.

On Fedora 20, it is ldc 0.12.0. That's not the latest release but also not too old.
The real problem with the Fedora package is that phobos/druntime is built as a shared library which is not (yet) supported. If you could fix this that would be awesome.

Regards,
Kai
February 13, 2014
On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 19:19:23 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> There should be a push to get DMD, GDC, LDC, Dub, Vibe.d and all
> associated technologies as up to date as possible in Debian and Fedora.
> But I can only make the call and help by using and reporting errors, I
> am not in a position to investigate official Debian or Fedora packaging
> — though I can possibly act as a support test packager if that helps.

LDC/Debian is currently discussed. GDC is more difficult because it can only be included as pary of GCC block. I don't think DMD will ever be in Debian because of backend license.
February 14, 2014
On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 19:41:13 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 17:16:30 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 06:14:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> $150: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1376870-create-debian-ubuntu-package
>>>
>>> $250: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1132204-arm-exception-handling-broken
>>>
>>> Both bounties expire in 6 months.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> LDC on Fedora is outdated as well... :) I will do something about it soon.
>
> On Fedora 20, it is ldc 0.12.0. That's not the latest release but also not too old.
> The real problem with the Fedora package is that phobos/druntime is built as a shared library which is not (yet) supported. If you could fix this that would be awesome.
>
> Regards,
> Kai

I even build my DMD RPM with shared library by default. :D I will change this. I kinda expected DMD to have shared library support before I do RPM SPECs, but that was not the case.