dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sat May 15 18:43:11 PDT 2010


"BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message 
news:a6268ff13bd08ccc2716440002a at news.digitalmars.com...
> Hello Adam,
>
>> On 5/15/10, Bernard Helyer <b.helyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Set executable bit, modify PATH
>>>
>> Meh, you don't have to do that. On my box, I have a wrapper script in
>> /usr/bin
>> so the dmd command works from anywhere, but you can just as well run
>> it right out of wherever you download it too. ./dmd works just as well
>> as dmd.
>>> I've a little script that copies the executables into /usr/bin, the
>>> manpages into manpage land, the docs into /usr/share/docs/dmd,
>>> imports into /usr/include/d and the libraries into /usr/lib, and so
>>> on.
>>>
>> Ew, why? I guess if you have a script it is ok for you, but there's
>> really no need to take it out of the folders where they are at the
>> unzip.
>>
>
> The same holds for every file in /usr/bin, I wonder what that says about 
> all the other people who put stuff there. Similar thought hold for the 
> other bits and places.
>

Maybe it's my windows upbringing, but I've never liked the idea of having 
each of my apps spread all across the whole filesystem.




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