On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 19:10:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 18:58:42 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
Wait, you mean with binaries and all?
Yeah, I like it the way it is too since I use the binaries too,
building windows programs from my linux box calling wine dmd.
My scripts currently assume the zip layout and it works pretty
beautifully.
I don't think Windows binaries will go anywhere as they do work
on all supported Windows versions. Problem is with considering
"Linux" a single platform while in practice each distro is more
like separate operating system (despite being so similar in many
things).
My vision is that we can keep current layout but to make it
mandatory to run `make` on target Linux system to create actual
binaries in the same places they are present right now. It should
work quite reliably at only added cost of actual compilation time
(which is relatively small for dmd + phobos)
