Ubuntu 1-click install for DMD 2.012

[Jesse Phillips]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:04 -0500, Jason House wrote:

> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> Dejan Lekic wrote:
>>> Mr. Bright,
>>> I thought it is illegal to pack DMD and distribute it. Since Mr.
>>> Vlasceanu obviously did the Debian package, may I maintain and
>>> distribute Fedora & OpenSuse DMD packages?
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> 
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)
>>>>
>>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb
>> 
>> 
>> It's being distributed on the digitalmars site, so it's not illegal for
>> Walter. :)
>> 
>> -JJR
> 
> Hmmm... How hard would it be to tweak the distribution mechanism such
> that ubuntu users can add digital mars to /etc/apt/sources.list?  If
> that's done, users will automagically be prompted with the option to
> upgrade with each new release (and other nifty stuff like command-line
> updates... apt-get install dmd)

digitalmars would have to run a repository for it but I don't think it 
would be too hard to set up. One of my concerns right now is the fact 
that you can't install dmd2 and dmd1 side by side, well you can but the 
conf file doesn't handle it. I feel being able to install all variations 
of the compiler should be supported. This, to me, would resolve a lot of 
the "competition."