Mac OSX installer for dmd

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Aug 2 06:18:37 PDT 2010


On 08/02/2010 06:01 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2010-08-02 02:07, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I got an email from someone who got an interest in D following my talk
>> at Google. He tried to install dmd on OSX, but got turned off (and
>> rightly so) for the unnecessary difficulties of that process and the
>> lack of documentation. Nicely of him he took the time to write me and
>> detail his experience. Following that, Walter managed to fix the most
>> egregious documentation errors.
>>
>> Ideally we'd have a one-click OSX installer for dmd - a .dmg file. Is
>> someone able and willing to own this project? I think improving the
>> out-of-the-box experience is important and urgent.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>> P.S. My talk at Google went, I think, reasonably well. It could've gone
>> a whole lot better; I neglected to make a couple of points. The talk was
>> recorded and, I was told, the recording will be on YouTube some time
>> next week. My mentions of Python and Haskell will probably get me
>> mortified in certain circles.
>
> Have you guys completely forgot
> http://dsource.org/projects/dmd-installer/browser/trunk/osx ? It's been
> there for over a year.

Hi Jacob,

Apologies for the oversight. I take it it's okay if Walter uses your 
code to build the distribution automatically? If so, what are the 
similarities and the differences with Michel's approach?

Andrei


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