• Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> Apr 28 2010
• Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling gmail.com> May 03 2010
• Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> May 11 2010

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:

Joseph Wakeling Wrote:

 I *am* the D Packagers team in Ubuntu and Debian - it is only me
 (for the moment). :-)


 I did not see your name here ... :-)
 https://launchpad.net/~d-language-packagers
 


Oh I see, glad we sorted out that confusion then (I thought you were referring
to the Deb maintainers for a moment there).

In that case then, to answer your original question, I can see no reason why
not in the long term. But first and foremost, I would have thought that the
initial goals would be to first get it running with gcc-4.4 (if ever) and
gcc-4.5. Then start expanding to other areas for a short while.

However, I certainly do not dictate the direction of upstream. I merely package
and see over fix arch specific bugs that arise.

 ... and many thanks for your work.  I'm very glad to see D making it into
Debian
 and Ubuntu.
 
 Best wishes,
 
     -- Joe


Regards
Iain

Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling gmail.com> writes:

Dear Iain,

I finally got round to installing gdc-4.3 from your PPA and had a try.
Unfortunately, first thing I ran into an error while compiling:

-------------------------------------------
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
function
std.random.UniformDistribution!(double,boundaries).UniformDistribution.opCall
(double a, double b) does not match parameter types
(double,MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18))
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (b) of type
MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18)
to double
-------------------------------------------

The same code compiles without a whisper with dmd so I'm guessing this is an
error
in Phobos 2.015 ... ?

Best wishes,

    -- Joe

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:

Joseph Wakeling Wrote:

 Dear Iain,
 
 I finally got round to installing gdc-4.3 from your PPA and had a try.
 Unfortunately, first thing I ran into an error while compiling:
 
 -------------------------------------------
 /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
 function
 std.random.UniformDistribution!(double,boundaries).UniformDistribution.opCall
 (double a, double b) does not match parameter types
 (double,MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18))
 /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../include/d2/4.3.4/std/random.d:652:
 Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (b) of type
 MersenneTwisterEngine!(uint,32,624,397,31,-1727483681u,11,7,-1658038656u,15,-272236544u,18)
 to double
 -------------------------------------------
 
 The same code compiles without a whisper with dmd so I'm guessing this is an
error
 in Phobos 2.015 ... ?
 
 Best wishes,
 
     -- Joe


Does dmd-2.015 compile the code correctly?

I have not used D2, to be honest, but from the errors emitted, looks like you
are calling a function with incompatible datatypes as arguments.

Regards