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digitalmars.D.ldc - Ldc apt-get is on 0.14.0 (Raspbian)

reply Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:
Hi,

it is quite nice, you can install LDC on Raspbian via apt-get 
install ldc.
Unfortunatelly it seems it isn't maintained as it is on version 
0.14.0 (v2.0.65).

Also the second resource
https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7h/ldc
is quite old (0.17.1-1).

If possible could you update these resources?

Kind regards
André
Jul 13 2017
parent reply jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 18:15:39 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:

 Hi,

 it is quite nice, you can install LDC on Raspbian via apt-get 
 install ldc.
 Unfortunatelly it seems it isn't maintained as it is on version 
 0.14.0 (v2.0.65).

 Also the second resource
 https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7h/ldc
 is quite old (0.17.1-1).

 If possible could you update these resources?

 Kind regards
 André


I've been playing around with the linux subsystem for windows and 
noticed this as well. sudo apt install ldc gives 0.17 for me. I 
ended up modifying the install instructions below (from here [1]) 
for the more recent version.

curl -L -O 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/download/v1.4.0/ldc2-1.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz

tar xf ldc2-1.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/your/ldc2-1.4.0-linux-x86_64/bin


It might make sense to put something like this a little more 
prominently on the github page, given that it only references 
using apt for ubuntu and those are older releases currently.


[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Build_D_for_Android
Nov 14 2017
parent reply "David Nadlinger" <code klickverbot.at> writes:
On 15 Nov 2017, at 3:11, jmh530 via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:

 It might make sense to put something like this a little more 
 prominently on the github page, given that it only references using 
 apt for ubuntu and those are older releases currently.


We have been going back and forth on this, following how involved people 
were in distro packaging. There is also the issue that packages from 
Debian/Ubuntu stable will be horribly out of date almost by definition 
– which I hope people using distros based on that would realise, but 
may not always do.

If you have any ideas on how to word the readme such as to clearly 
advertise the release tarballs as the "guaranteed up-to-date" option, 
could you maybe create a quick PR?

  — David
Nov 15 2017
parent jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 12:38:49 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:

 If you have any ideas on how to word the readme such as to 
 clearly advertise the release tarballs as the "guaranteed 
 up-to-date" option, could you maybe create a quick PR?



Sorry, took me longer than I expected to get around to this. I 
still kind of feel that it needs an example under the Linux 
heading, but I did not include it for the sake of this PR.

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2421
Nov 20 2017