Hi All,

Just a quick announcement that I just added DMD versions 1.010 and 1.014 to the portage tree. Apparently, some features of the language aren't supported by the current GDC version, so this should help.

Also, I would have liked to offer the option of using tango with DMD, but the current tango release (0.98) doesn't seem to compile with DMD 1.010 or 1.014.

Regards,
-- 
Anant Narayanan
http://www.kix.in/

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<anant@kix.in,gentoo.org,php.net>

Anant Narayanan wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just a quick announcement that I just added DMD versions 1.010 and
> 1.014 to the portage tree. Apparently, some features of the language
> aren't supported by the current GDC version, so this should help.
> 
> Also, I would have liked to offer the option of using tango with DMD,
> but the current tango release (0.98) doesn't seem to compile with DMD
> 1.010 or 1.014.
> 
> Regards,

A subset of dmd/license.txt:
    The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license,
    and may not be redistributed. If you wish to obtain a redistribution
    license, please contact Digital Mars.

Did Walter ok this?

Later,
Brad

Well, if I recall the way portage works is to pull the files from digitalmars.com anyway, which I think has been said was fine... but I suppose it's always best to check.

-[Unknown]


Brad Roberts wrote:
> Anant Narayanan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just a quick announcement that I just added DMD versions 1.010 and
>> 1.014 to the portage tree. Apparently, some features of the language
>> aren't supported by the current GDC version, so this should help.
>>
>> Also, I would have liked to offer the option of using tango with DMD,
>> but the current tango release (0.98) doesn't seem to compile with DMD
>> 1.010 or 1.014.
>>
>> Regards,
> 
> A subset of dmd/license.txt:
>     The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license,
>     and may not be redistributed. If you wish to obtain a redistribution
>     license, please contact Digital Mars.
> 
> Did Walter ok this?
> 
> Later,
> Brad

I wish someone would add this to Ubuntu.

Anant Narayanan Wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Just a quick announcement that I just added DMD versions 1.010 and 1.014 to the portage tree. Apparently, some features of the language aren't supported by the current GDC version, so this should help.
> 
> Also, I would have liked to offer the option of using tango with DMD, but the current tango release (0.98) doesn't seem to compile with DMD 1.010 or 1.014.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Anant Narayanan
> http://www.kix.in/
> 
> gpg --recv-keys 0EF6914E
> <anant@kix.in,gentoo.org,php.net>
> 

As a Gentoo user who just emerged dmd-bin, I can confirm that the dmd-bin ebuild in portage downloads dmd from ftp.digitalmars.com and not from any Gentoo mirror.

-Sterling Christensen

Brad Roberts Wrote:
> Anant Narayanan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Just a quick announcement that I just added DMD versions 1.010 and 1.014 to the portage tree. Apparently, some features of the language aren't supported by the current GDC version, so this should help.
> > 
> > Also, I would have liked to offer the option of using tango with DMD, but the current tango release (0.98) doesn't seem to compile with DMD 1.010 or 1.014.
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> A subset of dmd/license.txt:
>      The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license,
>      and may not be redistributed. If you wish to obtain a redistribution
>      license, please contact Digital Mars.
> 
> Did Walter ok this?
> 
> Later,
> Brad

J D wrote:
>> Also, I would have liked to offer the option of using tango with DMD, but the current tango release (0.98) doesn't seem to compile with DMD 1.010 or 1.014.

I think distros recommend reporting upstreams? :) http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/newticket

It is the first I've heard of problems with Tango and 1.014 though. Also feel free to join #d.tango if you're already on freenode.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
Dancing the Tango

Hi Brad,

> A subset of dmd/license.txt:
>      The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license,
>      and may not be redistributed. If you wish to obtain a redistribution
>      license, please contact Digital Mars.
>
> Did Walter ok this?

The package is under the nomirror restriction, which means the package isn't actually redistributed but fetched from the Digital Mars FTP site on a per-user basis (upon the user's request).

Regards,
--
Anant Narayanan
http://www.kix.in/

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<anant@kix.in,gentoo.org,php.net>

Anant Narayanan wrote:

>> A subset of dmd/license.txt:
>>      The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license,
>>      and may not be redistributed. If you wish to obtain a redistribution
>>      license, please contact Digital Mars.
>>
>> Did Walter ok this?
> 
> The package is under the nomirror restriction, which means the package isn't
> actually redistributed but fetched from the Digital Mars FTP site on a per-user
> basis (upon the user's request).

This is the same as with the .nosrc.rpm packages for RPM, they contain everything but the actual ZIP distfile from Digital Mars (just the URL):

Source: ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/%{name}.%{version}.zip
NoSource: 0

--anders

Anant Narayanan wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Just a quick announcement that I just added DMD versions 1.010 and 1.014 to the portage tree. Apparently, some features of the language aren't supported by the current GDC version, so this should help.
> 
> Also, I would have liked to offer the option of using tango with DMD, but the current tango release (0.98) doesn't seem to compile with DMD 1.010 or 1.014.
> 
> Regards,

Hi Anant,

many thanks for maintaining the ebuild.

I'd like to switch to this official ebuild instead of the overlay I currently use, but the the dmd-bin ebuild hasn't been updated frequently, so far.

Are you going to give frequnt updates (e.g. whenever a new stable version is
out)?

Regards,
David

J D wrote:

> I wish someone would add this to Ubuntu.

BTW; Wouldn't GDC be better to use for Ubuntu ?
(gdc would go as "free", but dmd as "non-free")

It could probably use the Debian package for GDC,
once that package has been accepted for inclusion:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403460
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/87337

You can of course make a request for a DMD package,
or continue to install it from ftp.digitalmars.com

--anders