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digitalmars.D - Will there be dmd.deb?

reply Henning Hasemann <hhasemann web.de> writes:
Hi, first of all, I love D (DMD).
Thats especially true for 1.005, very good work, thanks to everybody involved.

But I wondered why theres no one packaging dmd for debian (or other linux
distributions)?
I then looked into license.txt and saw it clearly disallowes any redistribution.
I think having a packaged version available whould be good for Ds popularity,
as it makes it very easy to "just try it out", and maybe one or the other
stumbles upon this in his package list (I found a lot of cool programs like
this).

So how could that work? Could one get an agreement to just package dmd into debs
and provide them on a website (either an own one or a provided one by
digitalmars).

I whould at least be willing to invest time for packing dmd into .debs
(I dont have any experience in it, but I dont imagine this whould be to hard),
just I cant guarantee to have the time always available when somebody
screems for the latest release to be packaged.

Henning
Feb 06 2007
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:
Henning Hasemann wrote:

 Hi, first of all, I love D (DMD).
 Thats especially true for 1.005, very good work, thanks to everybody involved.
 
 But I wondered why theres no one packaging dmd for debian (or other linux
 distributions)?
 I then looked into license.txt and saw it clearly disallowes any
redistribution.
 I think having a packaged version available whould be good for Ds popularity,
 as it makes it very easy to "just try it out", and maybe one or the other
 stumbles upon this in his package list (I found a lot of cool programs like
 this).
 
 So how could that work? Could one get an agreement to just package dmd into
debs
 and provide them on a website (either an own one or a provided one by
 digitalmars).
 
 I whould at least be willing to invest time for packing dmd into .debs
 (I dont have any experience in it, but I dont imagine this whould be to hard),
 just I cant guarantee to have the time always available when somebody
 screems for the latest release to be packaged.
 
 Henning


I know nothing about .deb, but if you want to put one together, I can 
make it downloadable from digitalmars.com.
Feb 06 2007
parent Henning Hasemann <hhasemann web.de> writes:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:03:16 -0800
Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> wrote:

Walter:
Did the package reach you or do I have to try a different address?

Henning
Feb 07 2007
prev sibling next sibling parent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Henning Hasemann wrote:


 But I wondered why theres no one packaging dmd for debian (or other linux
 distributions)?


I've been making RPMS for a while, since 0.109 or something like that...
http://www.algonet.se/~afb/d/dmd.spec ("rpmbuild -bb dmd.spec" to build)


 I then looked into license.txt and saw it clearly disallowes any
redistribution.
 I think having a packaged version available whould be good for Ds popularity,
 as it makes it very easy to "just try it out", and maybe one or the other
 stumbles upon this in his package list (I found a lot of cool programs like
 this).


Like you say the binary RPM cannot be redistributed, so I've just posted
the package specification to build your own using the official ZIP file.


 So how could that work? Could one get an agreement to just package dmd into
debs
 and provide them on a website (either an own one or a provided one by
 digitalmars).
 
 I whould at least be willing to invest time for packing dmd into .debs
 (I dont have any experience in it, but I dont imagine this whould be to hard),
 just I cant guarantee to have the time always available when somebody
 screems for the latest release to be packaged.


You can use my RPM and the "alien" program, if you want a quick start ?

The RPM has some optional stuff to use unittests, warnings or contracts.
But when run normally it just repackages the binaries from the zipfile.
I installed DMD into %{_bindir}/dmd, and Phobos into %{_libdir}/phobos.
For the normal %{_prefix} of /usr, that would be /usr/bin and /usr/lib.

The Phobos subpackage needs to be redone, to allow using Tango instead.
(so that you can install dmd+phobos or dmd+tango, whichever you prefer)

--anders
Feb 06 2007
prev sibling next sibling parent Witold Baryluk <baryluk mpi.int.pl> writes:
http://movax.mpi.int.pl/d.php

I can also create a self contained deb, but i can redistribute it, so until
Walter wouldn't agree i will not do this. :)
Feb 07 2007
prev sibling next sibling parent Witold Baryluk <baryluk mpi.int.pl> writes:
Witold Baryluk Wrote:

 I can also create a self contained deb, but i can redistribute it, so until
Walter wouldn't agree i will not do this. :)


Should be "I can't".
Feb 07 2007
prev sibling parent Pablo Ripolles <in-call gmx.net> writes:
Walter Bright Wrote:


 Henning Hasemann wrote:


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 I whould at least be willing to invest time for packing dmd into .debs
 (I dont have any experience in it, but I dont imagine this whould be to hard),
 just I cant guarantee to have the time always available when somebody
 screems for the latest release to be packaged.
 
 Henning


 
 I know nothing about .deb, but if you want to put one together, I can 
 make it downloadable from digitalmars.com.


Oh! this would be great, i'd use it from debian too!
Feb 07 2007