Agreed. Time to move off of that legacy approach. Thanks. On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Martin Nowak via dmd-internals < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/24/2015 08:43 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2015, at 04:58 PM, Martin Nowak via dmd-internals > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> - there seems to be no more need for the fat combined zip, let's drop it > > DVM uses it. > > OK let's wait with that for another release. > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/pull/140 > > > I don't see what harm it causes except for taking up hard disk > > space. Even if I modify DVM to use the platform specific packages there > will > > still be users that have an old version of DVM that can't use it for the > latest > > compilers. > > There is no reason to bundle binaries for all platforms in a single > archive other than distributing it via CD-ROM. We're adding lzma > archives to cut our bandwidth needs in half, we're adding more library > flavors (m32coff, maybe debug libs at some point), and we're releasing > much more often. The files since 2.065 already take up 65% of all space. > > I remember we already did talk about that with you a few months ago, > please update DVM. > > > _______________________________________________ > dmd-internals mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals >
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