This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)

http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb

Mr. Bright,
I thought it is illegal to pack DMD and distribute it. Since Mr. Vlasceanu obviously did the Debian package, may I maintain and distribute Fedora & OpenSuse DMD packages?

Kind regards

Walter Bright wrote:
> This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)
> 
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb

Dejan Lekic wrote:
> Mr. Bright,
> I thought it is illegal to pack DMD and distribute it. Since Mr. Vlasceanu obviously did the Debian package, may I maintain and distribute Fedora & OpenSuse DMD packages?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)
>>
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb


It's being distributed on the digitalmars site, so it's not illegal for Walter. :)

-JJR

John Reimer wrote:
> Dejan Lekic wrote:
> 
>> Mr. Bright,
>> I thought it is illegal to pack DMD and distribute it. Since Mr. Vlasceanu obviously did the Debian package, may I maintain and distribute Fedora & OpenSuse DMD packages?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)
>>>
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb
> 
> 
> 
> It's being distributed on the digitalmars site, so it's not illegal for Walter. :)
> 
> -JJR

and therefor a similar arrangement would also not be illegal for you with respect to Fedora & OpenSuse. Contact Walter and see what you can arrange.

John Reimer wrote:

> Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> Mr. Bright,
>> I thought it is illegal to pack DMD and distribute it. Since Mr.
>> Vlasceanu obviously did the Debian package, may I maintain and
>> distribute Fedora & OpenSuse DMD packages?
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)
>>>
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb
> 
> 
> It's being distributed on the digitalmars site, so it's not illegal for Walter. :)
> 
> -JJR

Hmmm... How hard would it be to tweak the distribution mechanism such that ubuntu users can add digital mars to /etc/apt/sources.list?  If that's done, users will automagically be prompted with the option to upgrade with each new release (and other nifty stuff like command-line updates... apt-get install dmd)

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:04 -0500, Jason House wrote:

> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> Dejan Lekic wrote:
>>> Mr. Bright,
>>> I thought it is illegal to pack DMD and distribute it. Since Mr.
>>> Vlasceanu obviously did the Debian package, may I maintain and
>>> distribute Fedora & OpenSuse DMD packages?
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> 
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)
>>>>
>>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb
>> 
>> 
>> It's being distributed on the digitalmars site, so it's not illegal for Walter. :)
>> 
>> -JJR
> 
> Hmmm... How hard would it be to tweak the distribution mechanism such that ubuntu users can add digital mars to /etc/apt/sources.list?  If that's done, users will automagically be prompted with the option to upgrade with each new release (and other nifty stuff like command-line updates... apt-get install dmd)

digitalmars would have to run a repository for it but I don't think it would be too hard to set up. One of my concerns right now is the fact that you can't install dmd2 and dmd1 side by side, well you can but the conf file doesn't handle it. I feel being able to install all variations of the compiler should be supported. This, to me, would resolve a lot of the "competition."

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:04 -0500, Jason House wrote:

> Hmmm... How hard would it be to tweak the distribution mechanism such that ubuntu users can add digital mars to /etc/apt/sources.list?  If that's done, users will automagically be prompted with the option to upgrade with each new release (and other nifty stuff like command-line updates... apt-get install dmd)

There's an apt repository for it already. It downloads the compiler from the DMD site and installs it for you:

deb http://d.xk.pl/debian/ unstable contrib

Updates within a few days of each release, and can install dmd 1 or 2 for you. Works for any linux distro with apt, really.

Jarrod wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:04 -0500, Jason House wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm... How hard would it be to tweak the distribution mechanism such that ubuntu users can add digital mars to /etc/apt/sources.list?  If that's done, users will automagically be prompted with the option to upgrade with each new release (and other nifty stuff like command-line updates... apt-get install dmd)
> 
> There's an apt repository for it already. It downloads the compiler from the DMD site and installs it for you:
> 
> deb http://d.xk.pl/debian/ unstable contrib
> 
> Updates within a few days of each release, and can install dmd 1 or 2 for you. Works for any linux distro with apt, really.

Is that on the digitalmars site somewhere?  It's a good feature to advertise.

Jarrod wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:04 -0500, Jason House wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm... How hard would it be to tweak the distribution mechanism such that ubuntu users can add digital mars to /etc/apt/sources.list?  If that's done, users will automagically be prompted with the option to upgrade with each new release (and other nifty stuff like command-line updates... apt-get install dmd)
> 
> There's an apt repository for it already. It downloads the compiler from the DMD site and installs it for you:
> 
> deb http://d.xk.pl/debian/ unstable contrib
> 
> Updates within a few days of each release, and can install dmd 1 or 2 for you. Works for any linux distro with apt, really.

What's the proper way to have this work with tango?

Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:05:04 -0500, Jason House wrote:
> 
> 
>>John Reimer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Dejan Lekic wrote:
>>>
>>>>Mr. Bright,
>>>>I thought it is illegal to pack DMD and distribute it. Since Mr.
>>>>Vlasceanu obviously did the Debian package, may I maintain and
>>>>distribute Fedora & OpenSuse DMD packages?
>>>>
>>>>Kind regards
>>>>
>>>>Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>This was prepared by Cristi Vlasceanu (of Zerobugs fame!)
>>>>>
>>>>>http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.012-030608_i386.deb
>>>
>>>
>>>It's being distributed on the digitalmars site, so it's not illegal for
>>>Walter. :)
>>>
>>>-JJR
>>
>>Hmmm... How hard would it be to tweak the distribution mechanism such
>>that ubuntu users can add digital mars to /etc/apt/sources.list?  If
>>that's done, users will automagically be prompted with the option to
>>upgrade with each new release (and other nifty stuff like command-line
>>updates... apt-get install dmd)
> 
> 
> digitalmars would have to run a repository for it but I don't think it would be too hard to set up. One of my concerns right now is the fact that you can't install dmd2 and dmd1 side by side, well you can but the conf file doesn't handle it. I feel being able to install all variations of the compiler should be supported. This, to me, would resolve a lot of the "competition."

I second that!

For a small company this really is a problem. During the years different apps get programmed to different customers, and it's easiest to do bug fixing and incrementals using the same version of D as the original. (Porting to the latest D is unfeasible for every little bug fix, since it may cause a lot of "unnecessary" work, especially when the app is nontrivial.)

Simply, if Walter changes the library naming convention to something like

libphobos<dmd-version-number>[debug/release]

we'd be a long way towards the goal. Of course additionally we need to fix paths and such on our development machines whenever we "switch" compilers, but that's a piece of cake, compared.