Can I distribute the DMD compiler in an app of mine?

Era Scarecrow rtcvb32 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 29 06:38:13 UTC 2022


On Sunday, 27 March 2022 at 23:25:34 UTC, Fruitful Approach wrote:
> Anyway, obviously I need to include the DMD compiler itself so 
> that the users get a nice installation experience.  Do we have 
> permission to do such a thing?

  Personally i would be against this. Not because licensing 
issues, but rather for bloat.

  I have a similar preference for games that include a bunch of 
dependency libraries, which can be far larger than the game 
itself and distributed in hundreds of games means potentially 
Gigabytes of repeated portions that are not needed and can't be 
compressed or removed.

  But that's just a personal opinion. It's not like you're 
including a 700Mb installer of .Net  in order to run a 200k 
program.


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