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

[Charles D Hixson]

C# is probably a very bad choice for a Linux installer.  Many 
to most Linux systems have chosen to not install mono.  I'm 
one.  I won't consider any application that requires mono, 
because of some rather unspecific threats made by MS.  It's 
not clear what, if anything, they're talking about, but if 
it's anything, it's probably .net.

Lester L. Martin II wrote:
> 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
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