Error after installing DMD v2.063

Ellery Newcomer ellery-newcomer at utulsa.edu
Sun Jun 2 17:43:20 PDT 2013


On 06/02/2013 05:29 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:24:47 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>> On 06/02/2013 05:15 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:08:41 Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> Regardless, the symlink issue alone shows that using the zip file format
>>> for *nix is a mistake. Any packages released for *nix needs to support
>>> symlinks correctly.
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> Is it so hard to convert the zip to tarball in the installer scripts?
>>
>> (hint: no)
>
> But unless the zip itself is fixed, then anyone downloading it is going to end
> up with a screwed up *nix setup unless they fix it themselves. It would be far
> better to just fix the zip.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>

wouldn't they have a screwed up setup with a tarball as well? They'd 
still need to fix $PATH and whatever you need to fix to make -lphobos2 work.


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