Error after installing DMD v2.063

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sun Jun 2 17:29:04 PDT 2013


On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:24:47 Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 06/02/2013 05:15 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 02, 2013 17:08:41 Walter Bright wrote:
> > 
> > Regardless, the symlink issue alone shows that using the zip file format
> > for *nix is a mistake. Any packages released for *nix needs to support
> > symlinks correctly.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> Is it so hard to convert the zip to tarball in the installer scripts?
> 
> (hint: no)

But unless the zip itself is fixed, then anyone downloading it is going to end 
up with a screwed up *nix setup unless they fix it themselves. It would be far 
better to just fix the zip.

- Jonathan M Davis


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