Mac OSX installer for dmd

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-08-02 15:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 08/02/2010 06:01 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2010-08-02 02:07, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> I got an email from someone who got an interest in D following my talk
>>> at Google. He tried to install dmd on OSX, but got turned off (and
>>> rightly so) for the unnecessary difficulties of that process and the
>>> lack of documentation. Nicely of him he took the time to write me and
>>> detail his experience. Following that, Walter managed to fix the most
>>> egregious documentation errors.
>>>
>>> Ideally we'd have a one-click OSX installer for dmd - a .dmg file. Is
>>> someone able and willing to own this project? I think improving the
>>> out-of-the-box experience is important and urgent.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> P.S. My talk at Google went, I think, reasonably well. It could've gone
>>> a whole lot better; I neglected to make a couple of points. The talk was
>>> recorded and, I was told, the recording will be on YouTube some time
>>> next week. My mentions of Python and Haskell will probably get me
>>> mortified in certain circles.
>>
>> Have you guys completely forgot
>> http://dsource.org/projects/dmd-installer/browser/trunk/osx ? It's been
>> there for over a year.
>
> Hi Jacob,
>
> Apologies for the oversight. I take it it's okay if Walter uses your
> code to build the distribution automatically? If so, what are the
> similarities and the differences with Michel's approach?
>
> Andrei

Yes, it's okay, that was the whole point of the code. The difference is 
that the package my code builds will contain dmd and it will install it 
in a different location (/usr/share/dmd). Obviously it doesn't contain 
the XCode plugin.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg