Error after installing DMD v2.063

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sun Jun 2 15:05:53 PDT 2013


On Sunday, June 02, 2013 22:52:59 Russel Winder wrote:
> 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.

It's done entirely by Walter on his own systems, and I suspect that the deb 
and rpm files are created from the zip file (though I'm not sure if he creates 
those or someone else does). We need to change it so that the process for 
generating them is automated and does not rely on Walter. Work is being done 
in that area, but it does not appear to be a priority for Walter.

- Jonathan M Davis


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