Well, it's been a total failure

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 09/13/2010 11:51 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 19:57 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> Anyhow, I guess that underlines the necessity to do what everybody does
>> - assemble the installer on the distribution platform, and have it only
>> contain the files for that platform. An increasingly large audience is
> [ . . . ]
>
> So create a Linux distribution on a Linux box (*) containing only the
> Linux materials with tar not zip using bzip2 or gzip compression.
> Solaris, FreeBSD, etc. all go the same.  Doing this for the source
> distribution will assist getting things into the Debian packaging
> system.
>
> On Windows I guess zip created on a Windows box (*) is the only option.
> I am sure Windows people will be happy not to have all the Linux and Mac
> OS stuff (which to them is crud).
>
> For Mac OS X the question is whether to make a Mac OS X installer, or
> ship a zipfile or tarball -- difficult for me to call I am not really a
> Mac OS X person, but . . . it would be really good to have a port in
> MacPorts to save the hassle of doing any manual installation. (**)
>
> Can I suggest that as part of the revolution that is going to be caused
> by having a 64-bit as well as 32-bit version of D v2, that there is a
> campaign to have D in Debian, Fedora and MacPorts.

My thoughts exactly.

Andrei