• scott_dmd scott.tranzoa.net Oct 06 2003
• Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> Oct 07 2003
• Scott Robinson <scott tranzoa.net> Oct 08 2003

scott_dmd scott.tranzoa.net writes:

Attached is a Debian packaging structure for the current distribution of DMD.

Uncompressing it into the "dmd" directory and then running the standard Debian
package building tools against it (dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot) will result in
redistributable and cleanly installable/uninstallable Debian packages.

DMD's license states I cannot redistribute my packages, so I hope that people
who are interested can take this and use it. I know I held back from using D
because there wasn't a clean install method for my operating system.

I fully authorize this package being integrated into the main DMD distribution,
if Walter wants to do that.

I am not an active reader of the D newsgroup, so I won't see any responses
unless they are e-mailed to me.

Scott.

Charles Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> writes:

scott_dmd scott.tranzoa.net wrote:
 Attached is a Debian packaging structure for the current distribution of DMD.
 
 Uncompressing it into the "dmd" directory and then running the standard Debian
 package building tools against it (dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot) will result in
 redistributable and cleanly installable/uninstallable Debian packages.
 
 DMD's license states I cannot redistribute my packages, so I hope that people
 who are interested can take this and use it. I know I held back from using D
 because there wasn't a clean install method for my operating system.
 
 I fully authorize this package being integrated into the main DMD distribution,
 if Walter wants to do that.
 
 I am not an active reader of the D newsgroup, so I won't see any responses
 unless they are e-mailed to me.
 
 Scott.


I have D installed on a Debian system via the released form, but a 
*.deb install would have been a lot easier.  OTOH, I tend to run 
from the testing tree, not the unstable tree, so I'm not sure I 
would have seen it even if it had been on the main Debian site.

Probably for a language in the current state of D (rapid 
development, no stable release) the best choice is either the 
current approach or to set up a location from which *.deb files and 
be downloaded.  For D the best choice would probably be an install 
script.  (FWIW, I installed D most recently under /usr/local/dmd.) 
The install script could handle such things as ensuing that the 
install directory was in the path, that the binaries were marked 
executable, and that phobos.a was copied to /usr/lib/phobos.a.  I 
have at times forgotten each of those steps.

Scott Robinson <scott tranzoa.net> writes:

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 16:54:06 -0700, Charles Hixson wrote:
 FWIW:
 I have D installed on a Debian system via the released form, but a 
 *.deb install would have been a lot easier.  OTOH, I tend to run 
 from the testing tree, not the unstable tree, so I'm not sure I 
 would have seen it even if it had been on the main Debian site.
 
 Probably for a language in the current state of D (rapid 
 development, no stable release) the best choice is either the 
 current approach or to set up a location from which *.deb files and 
 be downloaded.  For D the best choice would probably be an install 
 script.  (FWIW, I installed D most recently under /usr/local/dmd.) 
 The install script could handle such things as ensuing that the 
 install directory was in the path, that the binaries were marked 
 executable, and that phobos.a was copied to /usr/lib/phobos.a.  I 
 have at times forgotten each of those steps.


I'm not an official Debian developer. As such, I cannot add my DMD package
to the main distribution.

This package works in the sense of a install script - for Debian users.

1) cd dmd
2) tar -zxf ~/<path>/dmd-debian.tar.gz
3) dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
4) dpkg -i ../dmd_0.73-1_i386.deb

DMD is now properly placed within your Debian file system, available to
all users, and easily removed.

I would offer an apt source, but the license included with DMD explicitly
prohibits doing anything like that.

Scott.