Error after installing DMD v2.063

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Sun Jun 2 14:52:59 PDT 2013


On Sun, 2013-06-02 at 14:20 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
[…]
> Create a bug report for it. I don't think that Walter realizes what's 
> standard. And this whole problem probably stems from the fact that he can't 
> put symlinks in the zip file that he generates, so he was talking about making 
> it up to the maintainers to create the various symlinks, which IMHO is 
> unacceptable long term, but it seems to require either changing the main 
> release from a zip to something like 7zip or breaking it up per OS like a 
> number of people have been asking for for ages. Regardless, the fact that the 
> installer and rpm and whatnot are broken is unacceptable.

Not being able to put symlinks in a zipfile has nothing to do with
getting deb files and RPM files correct since they should be built from
tarballs.

Sounds like the system for creating distributions is broken.

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Russel.
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