On 11/28/13 11:17 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, November 28, 2013 08:36:08 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-11-27 21:46, Dicebot wrote:
Distributing binaries for Mac and Windows is fine (though it is much
better to keep those separate archives and patch DVM accordingly), this
thread is about Linux ones. You did not have any problems with it
because Debian derivatives take major percentage of users and you are
likely to have one.
If we're removing the zip as it currently is, it's another prof that D
isn't stable as it claims to be.
The zip has nothing to do with the stability of D itself. It just has to do
with the stalibity of how D is distributed, which is a completely different
issue. I can see why you care about the zip, given that you wrote and maintain
a tool which relies on it, but calling D unstable because we might change how
we release it would be like calling KDE or gnome unstable, because they
changed from distributing their code in tar.gz files to tar.bz2 files. How a
program or library is distributed has nothing to do with the stability of the
code itself.
Besides the fundamental point remains. People don't need to download all
platform files on one platform. It just doesn't follow. And the larger
the distribution will become the more annoying the issue will be.
Andrei
