[Pkg-d-devel] Process for adding dinotify and unit-threaded

[Russel Winder]

The majority of D programmers will likely use Dub and get dependencies
from the Dub repository. However the gtkd-3 package shows that Debian
and Fedora are building a "packaged from source for the platform"
collection.

I wonder if expanding this would be a Big Win™ for D development on
Debian and Fedora. In particular for myself I have built dinotify and
unit-threaded not as a package but as a locally installed static
library and shared object with pkg-config file. For this I added a
Meson build which has been accepted into the source tree so is present
upstream.

Sadly Meson does not yet support unity builds for D, so Meson cannot be
used to build the tests for a D code using unit-threaded. SCons does
however have such support.

So I am using Meson to build D libraries and SCons to build the
applications.

I guess the question is: is there benefit in adding dinotify and unit-
threaded to the packaged D stuff alongside gtkd?

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