• 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

tim <twkrimm yahoo.com> writes:

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.

Idan Arye <GenericNPC gmail.com> writes:

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...

bioinfornatics <bioinfornatics fedoraproject.org> writes:

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:
 [...]

 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.

 [...]

Fedora provides already A programming environment
I am the packager
Any help are welcome