Mon, 13 Sep 2010 01:53:06 +0000, BCS wrote: > Hello chmod+x, > >> Another source of misery are the contents of the dmd zip file. Every >> time you need to set +x flag for the executable. This is so ridiculous. >> Does the Creator accept one bit binary patches to the distributions to >> make the solution a reality? It's open source: >> >> unzip dmdzip.zip >> chmod +x executables >> zip -r dmdzip * >> >> > IIRC the .zip is created on a windows box so that doesn't exactly work. > :(
FWIW, http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php? art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=114660 mentions that the build system uses *nix. I'm guessing the internal testing system uses modern *nix tools, but the final release is published on a windows machine.
