Error after installing DMD v2.063

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Mon Jun 3 14:10:45 PDT 2013


On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:33:05 -0700
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Monday, June 03, 2013 00:38:09 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:58:29 -0700
> > 
> > Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday, June 02, 2013 16:52:03 Walter Bright wrote:
> > > > On 6/2/2013 2:52 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone is welcome to help out with the scripts that create deb
> > > > and
> > > > 
> > > > rpm files, which are here:
> > > >    https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer
> > > 
> > > Well, Nick is looking into some of that stuff. Hopefully, he'll be
> > > able to sort it out.
> > 
> > What I'm doing is zip-packaging and bootstrapping. I don't really
> > know much of anything about debs, rpms and such. Apologies if I've
> > mislead anyone.
> 
> Well, it's all part of the same thing. Maybe you won't deal with the
> rpms or debs explicitly, but what you're doing should enable them to
> be fixed. It's splitting up the zip file and making it so that we're
> distributing proper symlinks with *nix which is the key thing.
> 

Ok. It will, naturally, be generating a non-zipped DMD release
directory (just so it *can* then be zipped up), so maybe that could
help the other packagers.



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