Error after installing DMD v2.063

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Jun 3 11:32:51 PDT 2013


On 6/3/13 2:30 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 10:29 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/2/2013 3:05 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Creating deps and rpms is done from the zip file, and the scripts are here:
>>
>>      https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer
>>
>> I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but those scripts are not a mystery
>> and anyone can produce pull requests to add to them or fix them.
>
> As I noted earlier, the deb creation scripts in that repository are just
> fundamentally the wrong way of creating debs. Also as noted earlier I
> can't do anything about this till August. The result will not be a pull
> request on the script in the repository, but a new Git repository
> specifically designed to use the Debian standard deb creation toolchain
> and a request to delete the script mentioned above from the whole
> release toolset. Sorry guv but you have to use the right tool for the
> job, and deb creation should use the deb creation tools.
>
> The start point has to be a tarball of the source. If this is not part
> of the distribution release then we need to agree an officially
> acceptable process for creating a release source tarball.
>
> Thanks.

Instead of planning to work on it, one alternative would be to post bits 
and pieces of information in a bug report and guide others how to do it. 
Just a thought.

Andrei




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