Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a script, and voila! a self-installing download?

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1@digitalmars.com)'s article
> Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a script, and voila! a self-installing download?

I don't know anything about Debian, but several Debian fans have offered to help before. Perhaps their tips are of use to you (one person even tried to e-mail you a package):

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Will_there_be_dmd.deb_47844.html#N47944 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/18027.html http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/Making_debian_package_for_dmd._5324.html

Walter Bright wrote:

> Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a script, and voila! a self-installing download?

The earlier GNU/Linux packages that we made, either in the RPM or in
the DEB format, had problems with the non-distributable license of DMD.
(and the Free Software Guidelines said that license cannot be specific
to a single party or project, so something like Tango has wouldn't do)

Some solved this by making a non-official package that downloaded the
ZIP from ftp.digitalmars.com as part of the installation process...
/etc/apt/sources.list: "deb http://d.xk.pl/debian/ unstable contrib"
But that's pretty non-standard, and depends on the network working OK.


Other packages and installation methods are available from Wiki4D:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler

And GDC is in Debian now: http://packages.debian.org/testing/gdc-4.1
`apt-get install gdc-4.1`

--anders

Anders F Björklund Wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a script, and voila! a self-installing download?
> 
> The earlier GNU/Linux packages that we made, either in the RPM or in the DEB format, had problems with the non-distributable license of DMD. (and the Free Software Guidelines said that license cannot be specific to a single party or project, so something like Tango has wouldn't do)

Would you happen to know the minimal set of license changes that'd be required to allow a true debian package?  I'd love to see this happen for dmd.  That plus a package for libraries (both phobos and tango) that works with both dmd and gdc installations would be awesome!

Jason House wrote:

>> The earlier GNU/Linux packages that we made, either in the RPM or in
>> the DEB format, had problems with the non-distributable license of DMD.
>> (and the Free Software Guidelines said that license cannot be specific
>> to a single party or project, so something like Tango has wouldn't do)
> 
> Would you happen to know the minimal set of license changes that'd be
> required to allow a true debian package?  I'd love to see this happen
> for dmd.  That plus a package for libraries (both phobos and tango)
> that works with both dmd and gdc installations would be awesome!

Nope, but I guess* that Debian prefers using Free Software instead ?
i.e. the "free" GDC is probably preferred over the "non-free" DMD ...

Phobos is usually included with GDC/DMD, unless using Tango packages.
My own RPM packages are available at http://gdcgnu.sourceforge.net/

However, the first DMD issue would be the "non-distribution" clause -
Sun Java has the same problems for their JDK installation packages.

i.e. "The Software is copyrighted and comes with a single user license,
and may not be redistributed." (the same applies to The Specification)

--anders

* from reading http://www.debian.org/intro/free

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know how to build these things, and is willing to set up essentially a turnkey system so I can just copy the files in, run a script, and voila! a self-installing download?
> 
> The earlier GNU/Linux packages that we made, either in the RPM or in the DEB format, had problems with the non-distributable license of DMD. (and the Free Software Guidelines said that license cannot be specific to a single party or project, so something like Tango has wouldn't do)

I don't see that the generated package needs to be DFSG-compliant; the package can be installed by downloading the .deb from digitalmars.com -- or even by adding dm.com as a repository (which would require slightly more set-up on the DM folks' parts).

--Joel