[dmd-beta] dmd 2.063 beta 5

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 21:20:37 -0400
"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> That would actually be a really good reason to not put all of the OS
> releases in a single zip file. If they were separated (as a number of
> people have been requesting for some time), then the POSIX ones could
> use tar.gz or tar.bz2 or whatever to hold it all, and those can hold
> symlinks.
> 

Yes, please!

> Another possibility would be to stop using zip. There _are_ programs
> on Windows which can handle tar.gz and the like (e.g. 7zip), and it
> wouldn't surprise me if 7zip's own format could handle symlinks
> (though I don't know), and a lot of devs are likely to have 7zip
> installed. It _is_ a bit of a negative to _have_ to have something
> like 7zip installed, but I believe that there are already quite a few
> folks who release stuff in 7zip for Windows rather than zip (though
> it's still a lot less common than zip).
> 

IMHO and FWIW, No developer in 2013 has any excuse not to have a
7z-capable extractor.