Install/Uninstall using DSSS

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"tyro[a.c.edwards]" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
news:fhgq7q$2sqp$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Not understanding something about how this program works. Why would the 
> version of the program being installed be hard coded into DSSS? For 
> instance I used DSSS to install DMD today and it installed "Digital Mars D 
> Compiler v1.018" even thought the latest stable version is v1.023. 
> Wouldn't it make more sense to have the program identify and install the 
> most current stable version of the program? Speaking of which, there are 
> the locations from which the program does it's installations:
>
> 1) http://svn.dsource.org/projects/dsss/sources
> 2) http://dsss.brainsware.org/sources
>
> Why wouldn't DMD be installed from ftp.digitalmars.com?
>
> Well that's definitely what I'm looking for so let me go ahead and 
> uninstall this bad boy. So far so good: DSSS reports a successful 
> uninstall and every attempt after that reports "Package dmd is not 
> installed." But wait a minute all the files are still resident on my 
> computer. Am I missing something or are the files placed on the computer 
> not supposed to be removed in the uninstall process?
>
> Guess I was expecting a little too much there. Back to installation by 
> unzipping zip files! Thanks for the effort anyway.
>
> Andrew

In my experience DSSS works much better on Linux than on Windows.  It's not 
really all that surprising, since the developer is .. well, a rabid 
Windows-hater.

But things tend to be easier to install under Windows, so if all you need a 
build tool, Build works very nicely on Windows (but not so well under Linux. 
Hmmm...)