Error after installing DMD v2.063

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Jun 4 00:52:27 PDT 2013


On 6/3/2013 5:34 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> But why create it as a zip file in the first place?

Because creating tarballs on Windows is a big problem, not the least of which 
you can't create symlinks on Windows, so even if you found a working Windows tar 
program you still haven't solved the problem.

> Just create the tarball
> correctly when it's built and don't create a zip file at all. Clearly, people
> other than you are going to be sorting this out, but we shouldn't even be
> creating a zip file for the non-Windows OSes in the first place.
> The symlinks should be created as part of the build and tar-ed from there.

It isn't any harder creating a symlink after unzipping than it is creating one 
before creating a tarball.



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