While rdmd is extremey handy, newcomers might often want to start simple and easy for the beginning. Looking in the D wiki, there is quite a lot listed under IDE and Editors and Code:Blocks might actually be one of the more attractive beginners solutions.

Unfortunately the documentation (mainly on the code:blocks side) isn't reliable and/or correct and I feel that we should make it as easy and painfree as possible for newcomers to like and getting to try/work with D.

I'm now sitting in front of a working installation on a current Debian/Ubuntu/Mint (which might be pretty often encountered) and could provide/share a short howto for that scenario leading to a properly working codeblocks for D.

A) is that welcome/wanted?
B) if so, what's the right place for such a howto?
C) (for the future) is the forum the right place to introduce/ask about such stuff? If not, apologies for my misuse and: what's the right place and procedure?

Thanks - R

On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 17:33:54 UTC, Ramon wrote:
> While rdmd is extremey handy, newcomers might often want to start simple and easy for the beginning. Looking in the D wiki, there is quite a lot listed under IDE and Editors and Code:Blocks might actually be one of the more attractive beginners solutions.
>
> Unfortunately the documentation (mainly on the code:blocks side) isn't reliable and/or correct and I feel that we should make it as easy and painfree as possible for newcomers to like and getting to try/work with D.
>
> I'm now sitting in front of a working installation on a current Debian/Ubuntu/Mint (which might be pretty often encountered) and could provide/share a short howto for that scenario leading to a properly working codeblocks for D.
>
> A) is that welcome/wanted?
> B) if so, what's the right place for such a howto?
> C) (for the future) is the forum the right place to introduce/ask about such stuff? If not, apologies for my misuse and: what's the right place and procedure?
>
> Thanks - R

As you just did it, I think the best option is that you put what you just did somewhere in the wiki. Then we can work on form, link that where appropriate.

That'd be great.

On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 18:01:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>
> As you just did it, I think the best option is that you put what you just did somewhere in the wiki. Then we can work on form, link that where appropriate.
>
> That'd be great.

Thank you.
I do, however, not have permission to edit anything in the wiki (nor any experience in editing wikis).

How to proceed?

Thanks - R

On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 18:08:53 UTC, Ramon wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 18:01:55 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>
>> As you just did it, I think the best option is that you put what you just did somewhere in the wiki. Then we can work on form, link that where appropriate.
>>
>> That'd be great.
>
> Thank you.
> I do, however, not have permission to edit anything in the wiki (nor any experience in editing wikis).
>
> How to proceed?
>
> Thanks - R

Create an account here : http://wiki.dlang.org/?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=The+D+Programming+Language&type=signup

And you'll be able to edit. Then go to the page you want, and start editing. You can figure the syntax along the way, it is quite simple. I'm not a specialist and usually look at what already exists and cargo cult when editing wiki :D

Thanks a lot, Deadalnix

What/How you told me to do worked fine.
The new Howto (section) for D on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint with Code:Blocks can now be found here -> http://wiki.dlang.org/CodeBlocks

Maybe someone with more experience might want to have a look and make sure I did't rape the wiki too badly.

Thank you - R

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 09:16:41PM +0200, Ramon wrote:
> Thanks a lot, Deadalnix
> 
> What/How you told me to do worked fine.
> The new Howto (section) for D on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint with Code:Blocks
> can now be found here -> http://wiki.dlang.org/CodeBlocks
> 
> Maybe someone with more experience might want to have a look and make sure I did't rape the wiki too badly.
[...]

Looks good to me. Might want to link it to the front page navigation
somehow (perhaps through the page(s) that talks about IDEs for D).


T

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