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

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Wed Nov 27 10:15:09 PST 2013


On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/27/13 4:56 AM, Dicebot wrote:
[...]
> >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.
[...]

Didn't Nick already write a script that would generate separate tarballs
/ zipballs / whatnot for each supported platform?

I agree that putting *all* platforms in a *single* zip is very strange.
It makes people wonder, "why did they make me download the binaries for
every single platform out there when I only need support for one
platform?"


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