Well, it's been a total failure

[Andrej Mitrovic]

Nobody would care if the download was fast. :) I always get around
~100-150KB/sec with downloads from digitalmars.com, even though I can
easily reach 0.5Mb/sec on other websites.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:52 AM, chmod+x <zip at should.support.it> wrote:
> chmod+x Wrote:
>
>> dsimcha Wrote:
>>
>> > == Quote from Jesse Phillips (jessekphillips+D at gmail.com)'s article
>> > > Lutger Wrote:
>> > > > You need the i686 versions of some packages, probably start with libgcc (yum
>> > > > install libgcc.i686) and glibc, I don't remember which exactly are required. I
>> > > > have dmd running on 64 bit fedora just fine, it can work. There is also a 64-bit
>> > > > dmd in the making which should solve all those problems.
>> > > Based on a previous post by Walter, it sounds like he is working on just the
>> > code generation for 64bit and does not see a need to make the compiler 64 bit itself.
>> >
>> > The compiler already has been compilable as a 64-bit binary for months.  IMHO,
>> > though, Walter should release a 64-bit pre-compiled binary to make life easy for
>> > ppl with 64-bit installs.
>>
>> Another source of misery are the contents of the dmd zip file. Every time you need to set +x flag for the executable. This is so ridiculous. Does the Creator accept one bit binary patches to the distributions to make the solution a reality? It's open source:
>>
>> unzip dmdzip.zip
>> chmod +x executables
>> zip -r dmdzip *
>
> Okey, the binary patch is actually 349 bytes. A repackaged dmd is also 523737 bytes smaller (dmd 2.048, repackaged with 7z). That would save 5% in bandwidth cost and download time. Nobody cares.
>