• Joseph Rushton Wakeling (51/51) Apr 05 2017 Hello all,
• Joseph Rushton Wakeling (5/12) Apr 05 2017 More detailed installation instructions for different distros are

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:

Hello all,

In the absence of any reports of problems with the current LDC 
snap package, I've released it to the stable release channel.  
This means that it should now be possible to install it with the 
command:

     sudo snap install --classic ldc2

where the --classic flag is necessary in order to grant the 
access permissions the snap package needs to do its work.

Existing users wishing to ensure they will use this stable 
package release should refresh their installation:

     sudo snap refresh --classic --stable ldc2

The package provides LDC 1.1.1 (based on the DMD 2.071.2 
frontend) and uses LLVM 3.9.1 as the backend.  It is expected to 
work on any distribution with a sufficiently up-to-date snapd 
package.  In practice this means at least:

   * Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04

   * Debian Testing and Unstable

   * OpenSUSE Leap 42.2


-- Known issues ---

The package is not expected to work on Arch Linux for the time 
being due to some issues with the snapd package currently 
available.

Link-time optimization (i.e. the -flto flag) is expected to work 
only on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04.  Since this is in any case 
an experimental feature, this partial support has been tolerated 
for the current release.


-- Upcoming development releases ---

With a stable package now available, the `edge` and `beta` 
release channels will soon be used to make releases related to 
the upcoming 1.2.0 release.  Some planned updates include:

   * supporting architectures other than amd64

   * upgrading LLVM to 4.0

The `edge` channel will publish every individual update to the 
development branch of the package.  Development packages will be 
upgraded to the `beta` channel once they have been shown to work 
on multiple distributions.  Once LDC 1.2.0 is officially 
released, the package will move towards the `candidate` and 
`stable` channels once more.

You can check which release channel your current install is 
tracking using the command

     snap info ldc2

... and looking at the `tracking:` field.  You can switch which 
channel you are tracking by using the `snap refresh` command (see 
the beginning of this post) and choosing the channel using the 
corresponding flag: --stable, --candidate, --beta or --edge (in 
increasing order of instability:-)

For more information on snap package release channels, see: 
https://snapcraft.io/docs/reference/channels

Hope this package proves useful to people!

Best wishes,

     -- Joe

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:

On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 20:27:02 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
 The package provides LDC 1.1.1 (based on the DMD 2.071.2 
 frontend) and uses LLVM 3.9.1 as the backend.  It is expected 
 to work on any distribution with a sufficiently up-to-date 
 snapd package.  In practice this means at least:

   * Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04

   * Debian Testing and Unstable

   * OpenSUSE Leap 42.2

More detailed installation instructions for different distros are 
available here:
https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install