Install/Uninstall using DSSS

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Thu Nov 15 13:41:22 PST 2007


Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "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...) 

I use dsss almost exclusively on Windows.  I only fire up my VMWare 
ubuntu occasionally to check compatibility.  So maybe it does work 
better on Linux, but it still works great on Windows in my experience.

--bb


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