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

[Lester L. Martin II]

I don't care what framework it runs on.  I would be ok even if you rewrote it in assembler.  All I want is for it to be ported to Linux.
If it is possible do avoid C# and use D. 
Lester L. Martin II
Charles D Hixson Wrote:

> 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
> >