[dmd-internals] 4th Biweekly Sprint Planning

[Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals]

Agreed. Time to move off of that legacy approach. Thanks.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Martin Nowak via dmd-internals <
dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 08/24/2015 08:43 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > On Aug 23, 2015, at 04:58 PM, Martin Nowak via dmd-internals
> > <dmd-internals at puremagic.com> wrote:
> >
> >> - there seems to be no more need for the fat combined zip, let's drop it
> > DVM uses it.
>
> OK let's wait with that for another release.
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/140
>
> > I don't see what harm it causes except for taking up hard disk
> > space. Even if I modify DVM to use the platform specific packages there
> will
> > still be users that have an old version of DVM that can't use it for the
> latest
> > compilers.
>
> There is no reason to bundle binaries for all platforms in a single
> archive other than distributing it via CD-ROM. We're adding lzma
> archives to cut our bandwidth needs in half, we're adding more library
> flavors (m32coff, maybe debug libs at some point), and we're releasing
> much more often. The files since 2.065 already take up 65% of all space.
>
> I remember we already did talk about that with you a few months ago,
> please update DVM.
>
>
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