Does anyone want to work on a Linux port of the D Installer

[Lester L. Martin II]

I wasn't saying my project is better than shellscripts and such; I was just saying would you please port my application to linux

Anders F Björklund Wrote:

> Jakob wrote:
> 
> >> If anyone wants to work on a Linux port of the D installer I will give 
> >> them the source code to my project free as long as they keep the 
> >> source code of their project fully open to me as I will have done with 
> >> my project by giving them the source.
> >> Lester L. Martin II
> > I dont exactly know how your installer works, but i think on linux, it 
> > would be better to create deb/rpm packages.
> 
> The deb/rpm packages doesn't work too well with downloading the payload
> from the net, so they're better off with the free/redistributable GDC...
> 
> http://gdcgnu.sourceforge.net/ - GCC D Compiler for GNU/Linux (RPM/DEB)
> 
> However, there are shell scripts available that do similar thing as this
> .NET installer (I think) in that they download from ftp.digitalmars.com:
> 
> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler
> 
> --anders