== Quote from Leandro Lucarella ([email protected])'s article > dsimcha, el 24 de mayo a las 13:05 me escribiste: > > == Quote from Bruno Medeiros ([email protected])'s article > > > On 23/05/2010 01:45, Walter Bright wrote: > > > > Walter Bright wrote: > > > > > > > > Other toolchain problems are things like shared libraries, installation, > > > > bugzilla bugs, etc. > > > Installation? What kind of problems are those? > > > > On Linux, DMD can be a PITA to install if you're using an ancient > > distribution due > > to glibc being a different version than what DMD expects. I use such a > > machine > > and the only way to get DMD to work is to compile from source. > BTW, distributing a huge .zip with the binaries for all platforms is not > ideal either. In Linux you have to make the binaries executables. The only > straighforward option for Linux is the .deb, but it's only straightforward > for Ubuntu 32-bits, anything else needs some (non-trivial) work.
If packaging nightmares like this don't explain why Linux hasn't succeeded on the desktop, then nothing will.
