Will there be dmd.deb?

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue Feb 6 09:03:16 PST 2007


Henning Hasemann wrote:
> Hi, first of all, I love D (DMD).
> Thats especially true for 1.005, very good work, thanks to everybody involved.
> 
> But I wondered why theres no one packaging dmd for debian (or other linux
> distributions)?
> I then looked into license.txt and saw it clearly disallowes any redistribution.
> I think having a packaged version available whould be good for Ds popularity,
> as it makes it very easy to "just try it out", and maybe one or the other
> stumbles upon this in his package list (I found a lot of cool programs like
> this).
> 
> So how could that work? Could one get an agreement to just package dmd into debs
> and provide them on a website (either an own one or a provided one by
> digitalmars).
> 
> I whould at least be willing to invest time for packing dmd into .debs
> (I dont have any experience in it, but I dont imagine this whould be to hard),
> just I cant guarantee to have the time always available when somebody
> screems for the latest release to be packaged.
> 
> Henning

I know nothing about .deb, but if you want to put one together, I can 
make it downloadable from digitalmars.com.



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