Hey, great news!

I talked to Walter, and after a few emails I got permission to distribute my strange little compiler toolchain "snapshots" to make it easier for you to install D and start working.  The general idea is to make it easier for people who are new to D to start coding.

My current snapshot (0.2.0) has a few goodies, such as Tango and DWT.

You can download the snapshot from my site here: http://www.fsdev.net/node/2

Feel free to contact me and ask for new goodies and things and I'll see what I can do.  It was a great learning experience for me, though personally I don't think it should have been that hard to get going.

Hope you like it!

NOTE: If the site acts slow or 404's you, try reloading the page a few times and it should work (don't ask me why!).  I'm on a DreamHost shared server, and someone's been a little bit of an SQL hog and has been clogging up our SQL server.  It hasn't been severe enough to me to complain, and it seems to be calming down.

Chris Miller wrote:
> Hey, great news!
> 
> I talked to Walter, and after a few emails I got permission to distribute my strange little compiler toolchain "snapshots" to make it easier for you to install D and start working.  The general idea is to make it easier for people who are new to D to start coding.
> 
> My current snapshot (0.2.0) has a few goodies, such as Tango and DWT.
> 
> You can download the snapshot from my site here:
> http://www.fsdev.net/node/2

Nice, but I don't see a single, centralized manifest. I see that it has DMD (Windows only, alas), Tango, Derelict, and DWT, but that's split between the release notes for 0.1.0 and 0.2.0. Could you list the files on the main page?

Christopher Wright Wrote:

> Chris Miller wrote:
> > Hey, great news!
> > 
> > I talked to Walter, and after a few emails I got permission to distribute my strange little compiler toolchain "snapshots" to make it easier for you to install D and start working.  The general idea is to make it easier for people who are new to D to start coding.
> > 
> > My current snapshot (0.2.0) has a few goodies, such as Tango and DWT.
> > 
> > You can download the snapshot from my site here: http://www.fsdev.net/node/2
> 
> Nice, but I don't see a single, centralized manifest. I see that it has DMD (Windows only, alas), Tango, Derelict, and DWT, but that's split between the release notes for 0.1.0 and 0.2.0. Could you list the files on the main page?

Good idea.  Well, not for the main page.  0.1 doesn't have things that 0.2.1 has, so it would probably cause some confusion.

I just updated 0.2.1 for 'ya, so if that's what you had in mind let me know.

Chris Miller wrote:
> Christopher Wright Wrote:
> 
>> Chris Miller wrote:
>>> Hey, great news!
>>>
>>> I talked to Walter, and after a few emails I got permission to distribute my strange little compiler toolchain "snapshots" to make it easier for you to install D and start working.  The general idea is to make it easier for people who are new to D to start coding.
>>>
>>> My current snapshot (0.2.0) has a few goodies, such as Tango and DWT.
>>>
>>> You can download the snapshot from my site here:
>>> http://www.fsdev.net/node/2
>> Nice, but I don't see a single, centralized manifest. I see that it has DMD (Windows only, alas), Tango, Derelict, and DWT, but that's split between the release notes for 0.1.0 and 0.2.0. Could you list the files on the main page?
> 
> Good idea.  Well, not for the main page.  0.1 doesn't have things that 0.2.1 has, so it would probably cause some confusion.
> 
> I just updated 0.2.1 for 'ya, so if that's what you had in mind let me know.

I think what he was saying was that the download pages like this one:
   http://www.fsdev.net/node/13


Should list what versions of what packages are included, and for what OS.  And if some of the libs are pre-compiled, what version of what compiler was used.

If he's not saying that, then I am.  :-)

--bb

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Chris Miller wrote:
> > Christopher Wright Wrote:
> > 
> >> Chris Miller wrote:
> >>> Hey, great news!
> >>>
> >>> I talked to Walter, and after a few emails I got permission to distribute my strange little compiler toolchain "snapshots" to make it easier for you to install D and start working.  The general idea is to make it easier for people who are new to D to start coding.
> >>>
> >>> My current snapshot (0.2.0) has a few goodies, such as Tango and DWT.
> >>>
> >>> You can download the snapshot from my site here: http://www.fsdev.net/node/2
> >> Nice, but I don't see a single, centralized manifest. I see that it has DMD (Windows only, alas), Tango, Derelict, and DWT, but that's split between the release notes for 0.1.0 and 0.2.0. Could you list the files on the main page?
> > 
> > Good idea.  Well, not for the main page.  0.1 doesn't have things that 0.2.1 has, so it would probably cause some confusion.
> > 
> > I just updated 0.2.1 for 'ya, so if that's what you had in mind let me know.
> 
> I think what he was saying was that the download pages like this one:
>     http://www.fsdev.net/node/13

Latest is at http://www.fsdev.net/node/15 but I have to put off documenting past releases until I can get some other bits of work done.  It's #2 on my list of stuff to do though.

> Should list what versions of what packages are included, and for what OS.  And if some of the libs are pre-compiled, what version of what compiler was used.

Excellent idea!  Why didn't I think of that...  obviously because if I had I would have done it, but that's beside the point.

> If he's not saying that, then I am.  :-)

Good good these are good things that I forgot that really need to be there.  Excellent!

When I try to download that files, it says "Page not found"

For http://www.fsdev.net/system/files/dmdsnapshot-0.2.0.zip , http://www.fsdev.net/system/files/dmdsnapshot-0.2.1.zip

That's a great idea. Since this also serves programmers new to D, I suggest adding one or two words per included library that describes them, with a link to their respective websites.

Im, Jihyuk Wrote:

> When I try to download that files, it says "Page not found"
> 
> For http://www.fsdev.net/system/files/dmdsnapshot-0.2.0.zip , http://www.fsdev.net/system/files/dmdsnapshot-0.2.1.zip

Curious.  I just clicked on those links and they started to download just fine.

I am on a shared hosting server though.  During the day it does have a tendency to slow down a great deal.  The site's way of "throttling" usage is to throw a 404 if it can't process a page in a timely manner.

If you just keep hitting "refresh" it will eventually start working.

Part of the problem is that DreamHost has this process killer which periodically murders my PHP5 FastCGI processes.  This causes the whole Drupal software to reload itself.  I'm about to the point that I'm going to contact them and given them a list of processes that should be immune to the process killer, which is really meant to kill things like Teamspeak and Slapd to cut down on memory usage.

So far on my list is bash, .cgi, .fcgi, .php, less, nano (it's annoying to be editing something and then have the process die under you), and a few others.  They'll probably tell me to deal with it.  I'll have vindicated myself by passing the blame on to the next group of people though, so I'll be okay.

What's really annoying is that I've set the connection timeouts to somewhere around 1.5 hours so I can upload this stuff over pokey connections.  However, the process killer comes and kills the PHP process, which aborts the upload and throws a 500 error.  I had to log in via FTP, place the file in the web directory and then point the Drupal project release system to that.  Unfortunately it uses UNIX timestamps and md5sums to id files, so then I have to go to the MySQL administrator tool and manually tweak the release entry in SQL.  That's why 0.2.1's latest edit was before its initial release.  I don't have a UNIX timestamp tool (all I have is bash's "stat" command) that normalizes to GMT.  So the updated is actually 8 hours off... or maybe it was the initial?  I don't know.  At least the day was right!

So it has a few kinks to work out, but if I've learned one thing administering my website so far, it's that there's always something more to do.

lutger Wrote:

> That's a great idea. Since this also serves programmers new to D, I suggest adding one or two words per included library that describes them, with a link to their respective websites.

That too is a great idea!  Already done for 0.2.1, I'll fill in for 0.2.0 and 0.1.0 as well.

Chris Miller pisze:
> Hey, great news!
> 
> I talked to Walter, and after a few emails I got permission to distribute my strange little compiler toolchain "snapshots" to make it easier for you to install D and start working.  The general idea is to make it easier for people who are new to D to start coding.
> 
> My current snapshot (0.2.0) has a few goodies, such as Tango and DWT.
> 
> You can download the snapshot from my site here:
> http://www.fsdev.net/node/2
> 
> Feel free to contact me and ask for new goodies and things and I'll see what I can do.  It was a great learning experience for me, though personally I don't think it should have been that hard to get going.
> 
> Hope you like it!
> 
> NOTE: If the site acts slow or 404's you, try reloading the page a few times and it should work (don't ask me why!).  I'm on a DreamHost shared server, and someone's been a little bit of an SQL hog and has been clogging up our SQL server.  It hasn't been severe enough to me to complain, and it seems to be calming down.

It is not possible to download package to my computer. It seems that connection is dropped by your server in such a way that download manager (firefox default manager) thinks that everything was already downloaded.

Such download results in zip file, which is e.g 5Mb, has .zip extension and is completely unusable (corrupted).

I tried several times (also with IE) without success.

If you just could fix this server issue, your package would be great help :-)

BR
Marcin Kuszczak