digitalmars.D - Would a DSpin or DLab for Fedora make sense?
- tim (14/14) Oct 09 2015 Would a DSpin or DLab for Fedora make sense?
- Idan Arye (28/45) Oct 11 2015 I doubt it'll be a good idea. These bundles seem to target areas
- bioinfornatics (4/11) Oct 12 2015 Fedora provides already A programming environment
Would a DSpin or DLab for Fedora make sense? i.e. a Linux build with most of the D stuff preinstalled. What is Fedora Labs? Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations. What is Fedora Labs? Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations. I think Debian has something similar called Blends. I assume most of the major Linux versions have something similar.
Oct 09 2015
On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 18:10:59 UTC, tim wrote:Would a DSpin or DLab for Fedora make sense? i.e. a Linux build with most of the D stuff preinstalled. What is Fedora Labs? Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations. What is Fedora Labs? Fedora Labs is a selection of curated bundles of purpose-driven software and content as curated and maintained by members of the Fedora Community. These may be installed as standalone full versions of Fedora or as add-ons to existing Fedora installations. I think Debian has something similar called Blends. I assume most of the major Linux versions have something similar.I doubt it'll be a good idea. These bundles seem to target areas of interest, never specific languages. You can see bundles geared towards graphic designers or gamers, but not ones for C++ or Java developers. I think the reason is that the purpose of these bundles is to attract people to install the distribution. "Are you a sound editor? We have something just for you - Fedora Jam!". This doesn't work the other way around - nobody will start editing music just because Fedora offers Fedora Jam... Also, Fedora Labs is quite a commitment - in order to use one, you have to reinstall the OS. This is OK if you are an enthusiastic considering a switch to Linux and being offered a distribution flavor modified specifically for you hobby, but programmers usually expect languages to work on whatever OS they'll choose to use(.NET developers choose to ignore the existence of non-Windows operation systems :-P). Existing D developers won't install a new OS just to use D, because it's a lot of trouble and they can already use D just find in their current setups. We can't attract new D developers that way either - convincing someone to try D is hard enough without trying to get them to install a new OS! So, a bundle dedicated to D is not a good idea, but it can be nice if we can get D into the existing bundles. For example, if we can get D into Fedora Scientific, it can get science programmers to try D for their science programs. Of course, for that we need to convince the maintainers that D is good for science...
Oct 11 2015
On Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 13:27:12 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 18:10:59 UTC, tim wrote:Fedora provides already A programming environment I am the packager Any help are welcome[...]I doubt it'll be a good idea. These bundles seem to target areas of interest, never specific languages. You can see bundles geared towards graphic designers or gamers, but not ones for C++ or Java developers. [...]
Oct 12 2015