Should "std.net.curl" be moved from Phobos to Deimos?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Nov 27 10:00:38 PST 2013


On 11/27/13 4:56 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 21:04:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I really think providing just source + single additional .deb package as
>>> an example is the best way to go.
>>
>> Well we kind of do that already. No?
>>
>> Andrei
>
> No. We provide Linux binaries in .zip and pretend they are expected to
> work for all distros which simply can't happen in general. Fedora bug
> report would not have been valid if not implication that there is a
> supported binary distribution for Fedora.
>
> I suggest to simply stop pretending any kind of such support exist and
> drop Linux binaries from .zip at all. Motivating people to create dmd
> packages for their native distros scales much better (and solves
> most/all curl issues for Linux)

I agree the business with distributing all binaries for all platforms in 
the .zip is just weird. We should drop it for the New Year's release.

Andrei



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