Hello Daniel,
BCS wrote:
Hello Daniel,
I actually started sketching out a possible installer a few weeks
ago. Here's what I came up with:
First of all, you can't include DMD itself in the installer since
the license doesn't allow for this.
with Walter's blessing you can. Tango goes this way.
But technically, the people who download it then can't redistribute
it.
I just think it's simpler to have the installer download the zip file
itself and avoid the problem in its entirety.
I guess it's just that an installer that needs anything else (including an
internet connection) to install seems utterly pointless to me. In my book
an installer is firstly the data to be installed and secondly a tool to configure
it. When I download an installer, I want to know that it will work where
ever and when ever I have that file. Even if Walter decides to shutdown digitalmars
so he can go off and become a monk.
(Incidentally, I actually already have permission from Walter to
redistribute DMD; a professor at uni wanted to take a peek so I put
together an installer.)
As for using an installer "tool", I don't think that's really
applicable for something like this. I say write it in D because
otherwise we'll have people saying that D sucks because we don't use
it.
Um, I've got to say I think you are wrong on this. Installer tools
will cut the effort to produce this by like 90%. I'd rather see that
time spent on just about anything rather than using D just so we can
say we do.
I've never met one that could do the sorts of tasks I'm proposing. If
such a tool does exist, then fantastic; let's use that.
Anything worth looking at will do the only things I think a DMD installer
should do.
