On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 11/27/13 4:56 AM, Dicebot wrote: [...] > >No. We provide Linux binaries in .zip and pretend they are expected > >to work for all distros which simply can't happen in general. Fedora > >bug report would not have been valid if not implication that there is > >a supported binary distribution for Fedora. > > > >I suggest to simply stop pretending any kind of such support exist > >and drop Linux binaries from .zip at all. Motivating people to create > >dmd packages for their native distros scales much better (and solves > >most/all curl issues for Linux) > > I agree the business with distributing all binaries for all > platforms in the .zip is just weird. We should drop it for the New > Year's release. [...]
Didn't Nick already write a script that would generate separate tarballs / zipballs / whatnot for each supported platform? I agree that putting *all* platforms in a *single* zip is very strange. It makes people wonder, "why did they make me download the binaries for every single platform out there when I only need support for one platform?" T -- Doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
