On 05/24/2010 09:05 AM, dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Bruno Medeiros (brunodomedeiros+s...@com.gmail)'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.
On Windows there's been some talk of making an installer. Personally, I think
this should be a very low priority. Unpacking a zip file may not be the most
friendly installation method for someone who's completely computer illiterate,
but
we're talking about programmers here. Even novice ones should be able to figure
out how to unpack a zip file into a reasonable directory.
Actually, if you use InstallJammer, creating an installer could/should
be very easy. I used it at work for a project and it will allow you to
create an installer for a number of different platforms and a plain-old
.zip/.tar.gz.
Though, IMHO, I really like the way it's currently distributed. I've
grown to appreciate the simple "unzip to install"/"delete directory to
uninstall" way of doing things a lot. I just really hate the dependency
that damn near everything has on the Windows registry.
Casey
