Adding a chocolatey package

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon May 5 16:57:32 PDT 2014


On 5/5/2014 3:41 PM, Etienne Cimon wrote:
> On 2014-05-05 18:21, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 20:05:09 UTC, Etienne wrote:
>>> Are we allowed to put a DMD installer on http://chocolatey.org as a
>>> package? I'd be interested in building a bulk installer for DMD + dub
>>> + Mono-D but I'm not sure about the licensing terms b/c the dmd
>>> back-end is supposedly proprietary.
>>
>> The Windows installer does not include DMD in itself, it just downloads
>> the zip file and sets it up. You could go the same way. This way, you
>> don't need to get permission from WB.
>
> Ok, so if the zip from dlang.org downloads is downloaded and unpacked on the
> computer automatically it's all good?

Yes, and you'll also be getting the latest that way, rather than having to 
constantly update your installer.


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