Parallel Install

Jesse Phillips jessekphillips at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 22:18:17 PST 2008


On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:38:33 -0500, Dan wrote:

> Sean Kelly Wrote:
> 
>> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>> > On Windows, this is easy.  I have it setup so I can type a single
>> > command to switch between dmd1 and dmd2.  This is common practice
>> > with Linux as well; I believe it's called "gcc-config"?
>> 
>> On Windows, I just install DMD 1.0 to /dmd and DMD 2.0 to /dmd2, and
>> rename the DMD 2.0 executable to dmd2.exe.  Both /bin directories are
>> in my path, and I can call either as needed, so building against 1.0
>> is:
>> 
>>     dmd myapp.d
>> 
>> And building against 2.0 is:
>> 
>>     dmd2 myapp.d
>> 
>> This may not be ideal for a production setup, but it's just fine for
>> testing and such.
>> Sean
> 
> Ah cool, I guess I just never thought to do that.
> 
> Are most folk's writing production programs in D 2.x or still the D 1.x
> line?

I would assume that it is still in version 1. My concern is more tuned to 
when work moves to v2, but there are still source in v1 that isn't going 
to be updated for whatever reason.



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