Well, it's been a total failure

[chmod+x]

chmod+x Wrote:

> dsimcha Wrote:
> 
> > == Quote from Jesse Phillips (jessekphillips+D at gmail.com)'s article
> > > Lutger Wrote:
> > > > You need the i686 versions of some packages, probably start with libgcc (yum
> > > > install libgcc.i686) and glibc, I don't remember which exactly are required. I
> > > > have dmd running on 64 bit fedora just fine, it can work. There is also a 64-bit
> > > > dmd in the making which should solve all those problems.
> > > Based on a previous post by Walter, it sounds like he is working on just the
> > code generation for 64bit and does not see a need to make the compiler 64 bit itself.
> > 
> > The compiler already has been compilable as a 64-bit binary for months.  IMHO,
> > though, Walter should release a 64-bit pre-compiled binary to make life easy for
> > ppl with 64-bit installs.
> 
> Another source of misery are the contents of the dmd zip file. Every time you need to set +x flag for the executable. This is so ridiculous. Does the Creator accept one bit binary patches to the distributions to make the solution a reality? It's open source:
> 
> unzip dmdzip.zip
> chmod +x executables
> zip -r dmdzip *

Okey, the binary patch is actually 349 bytes. A repackaged dmd is also 523737 bytes smaller (dmd 2.048, repackaged with 7z). That would save 5% in bandwidth cost and download time. Nobody cares.