[dmd-beta] dmd 2.063 beta 5

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/25/13 3:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2013 11:41:17 -0700
> Walter Bright<walter at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, zip on linux does not run on windows, and windows
>> doesn't have an ssh host.
>>
>
> Genuine question, not sarcasm: What would the Windows-hosted ssh be
> needed for? Maybe there's another way to achieve the same effect, like
> running an SFTP server on the linux side?

I'd love ssh access to a Windows host. The best scenarion for building 
the installer is to start from a Unix machine (which has all those 
command-line tools) and ssh into Windows for carrying the build.

> The problem is it's getting ridiculously bloated. On every system I put
> DMD in, I have to extract around 100MB of irrelevant binaries, just to
> then go and delete them (!) or else accumulate 1GB of junk per 10 DMDs.
> On top of all that, it significantly increases both download and
> extraction times.
>
> The problem I don't understand is what's so wrong or problematic with
> having the packaging scripts just generate separate OS archives
> instead of separate OS directories within one archive.

I agree this is a ridiculous situation.


Andrei