Error after installing DMD v2.063

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Jun 2 19:33:03 PDT 2013


On 6/2/13 8:15 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:08:41 Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/2/2013 4:54 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Sunday, June 02, 2013 16:50:00 Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> It already is broken up per OS:
>>>>      http://dlang.org/download.html
>>>
>>> But the _zip_ file isn't. We keep asking for _that_ to be broken up.
>>
>> There's no reason to, as broken up ones are available for each system.
>
> Except that those are rpms and debs and whatnot which are different. I'm far
> from the first to bring this up. It has been brought up repeatedly for quite
> some time that folks don't want the zip to contain everything. They want to
> get the zip (or tarball) for their specific OS and that's it. Using an rpm and
> deb is fundamentally different, and if that were enough, why do we even have
> the zip? Separating the OSes out and having an installer are two separate
> issues (much as they have to be separated out for the installers), and most of
> us want the zip to be separated. I don't think that much of anyone around here
> thinks that the zip should contain all of the OSes. I believe that you're the
> only one that's actually thought that it was a good idea whenever it's been
> discussed. And the zip is only going to get bigger and bigger as we add shared
> library support (and possibly more OSes in the future).
>
> 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.

I quoted all of the above because I so much agree with it. Packaging all 
OSs in a zip is really disingenuous and now it's come to a head. Let's 
fix this for 2.064.


Andrei



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