Well, it's been a total failure

[retard]

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:53:06 +0000, BCS wrote:

> Hello chmod+x,
> 
>> 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 *
>> 
>> 
> IIRC the .zip is created on a windows box so that doesn't exactly work.
> :(

FWIW, http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?
art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=114660 mentions that the build system 
uses *nix. I'm guessing the internal testing system uses modern *nix 
tools, but the final release is published on a windows machine.