Start of dmd 2.064 beta program

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Oct 18 10:44:59 PDT 2013


On Friday, October 18, 2013 08:57:00 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > Speaking of which, insisting on using .zip files is another beef I
> > have with Walter. The whole "everyone on Windows is stuck in the 90s"
> > mentality is plain wrong, especially for programmers. 7zip (or Peazip
> > or whatever) should be part of every modern programmer's toolbox.
> 
> I don't think that makes a large difference. Probably the better thing
> to do is trimming the contents of the archive.

The #1 reason why zip has got to go is symlinks. The shared libraries for 
Linux in the zip are messed up, because you can't put symlinks in the zip file. 
We really need to have OS-specific archives with the Linux one being something 
like .tar.gz or .tar.bz2.

- Jonathan M Davis


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