dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 5/16/10 22:02, Charles Hixson wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 06:13 PM, BCS wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> /usr/bin is for system installed executables. It's bad practice to put
> other things there. I could see installing them to /usr/local/bin ,
> /usr/opt/bin or /home/$USER/bin, but otherwise just leaving them where
> they're unzipped is quite reasonable. (Each of the approaches has their
> own particular reason why they're a good idea. E.g. /usr/local/bin is
> easy to share with other users on the system. I'm not sure why
> /usr/opt/bin, but some have, historically, preferred it. /home/$USER/bin
> allows sharing libraries within a single user. And just leaving it where
> you unzipped it facilitates having multiple versions of the same program
> available.)
>
> P.S.: Does D actually allow you to just run from the unzipped folder?
> Earlier versions required a global library installation. It's been
> awhile since I've done the tarball installation, so I don't recall. But
> it used to be impossible to have both D1 and D2 installed, much less
> D2.040 and D2.046.

Yes you can use D straight out of the unzipped folder. DMD looks for 
dmd.conf/ini in the same directory as the binary first, before it looks 
at the system level. I have both D1 and D2 installed, it works fine.