Install/Uninstall using DSSS

[Jesse Phillips]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:50:34 -0500, tyro[a.c.edwards] wrote:

> 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

I haven't used the windows version, but I would not use its ability to 
install dmd as a good rating of dsss. The main reason is that it will be 
behind, this is caused because dmd.zip from the ftp site (yes it uses the 
digitalmars site) is behind and to get the latest you must query the site 
and compare versions, I don't think it's worth it. I would suggest 
keeping it and see what it can do for you. If you haven't had a need for 
make files it looses its appeal, but I can see more and more D projects 
shipping installable with dsss.