Well, it's been a total failure

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Sep 13 07:20:20 PDT 2010


On 09/12/2010 10:05 PM, retard wrote:
> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:53:06 +0000, BCS wrote:
>
>> Hello chmod+x,
>>
>>> 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 *
>>>
>>>
>> IIRC the .zip is created on a windows box so that doesn't exactly work.
>> :(
>
> FWIW, http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?
> art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=114660 mentions that the build system
> uses *nix. I'm guessing the internal testing system uses modern *nix
> tools, but the final release is published on a windows machine.

My understanding is that Walter still uses Windows for the final 
packaging steps. It's ironic because he essentially uses cmd on Windows 
in conjunction with a few command-line tools of his use that emulate 
(badly, nonstandardly, and NIHily) 0.1% of Unix. I hope this to 
gradually change.

Andrei


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