Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
BCS n...@anon.com wrote in message news:a6268ff13be78ccc28aed90f...@news.digitalmars.com... Hello Nick, BCS n...@anon.com wrote in message news:a6268ff13bd08ccc27164400...@news.digitalmars.com... The same holds for every file in /usr/bin, I wonder what that says about all the other people

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Charles Hixson
On 05/15/2010 02:00 AM, Walter Bright wrote: Don wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Leandro Lucarella wrote: I saw the patches, and having all hardcoded in the compiler doesn't seems like a good idea =/ I know the hardcoding is probably not the best, but I wanted to try it out to see if it was a

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Charles Hixson
On 05/15/2010 06:13 PM, BCS wrote: Hello Adam, On 5/15/10, Bernard Helyer b.hel...@gmail.com wrote: Set executable bit, modify PATH Meh, you don't have to do that. On my box, I have a wrapper script in /usr/bin so the dmd command works from anywhere, but you can just as well run it right

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Walter Bright
Charles Hixson wrote: On 05/15/2010 02:00 AM, Walter Bright wrote: The D web site is rather pedestrian, but at least it's easy on the eyes. *Pedestrian*?? The D web pages are a marvel of clarity and utility. Compare them to the Python web pages, which I rate a second best. Things are

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 5/16/10 22:02, Charles Hixson wrote: On 05/15/2010 06:13 PM, BCS wrote: Hello Adam, On 5/15/10, Bernard Helyer b.hel...@gmail.com wrote: Set executable bit, modify PATH Meh, you don't have to do that. On my box, I have a wrapper script in /usr/bin so the dmd command works from

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Maybe there's a plugin for Firefox that can force some colors on individual websites, I'll have a look later. There is: Stylish. It allows you to completely redefine the style sheet on a site by site basis (always assuming that the web site uses css of course):

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Ary Borenszweig wrote: Jérôme M. Berger wrote: Walter Bright wrote: Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 5/15/10 11:00, Walter Bright wrote: Apple's web site isn't much better, it's got to be the most hard to read site I've ever encountered. The text is a faint grey on white, of all things, and the

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread BCS
Hello Charles, On 05/15/2010 06:13 PM, BCS wrote: The same holds for every file in /usr/bin, I wonder what that says about all the other people who put stuff there. Similar thought hold for the other bits and places. /usr/bin is for system installed executables. It's bad practice to put

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread linux user
Adam Ruppe Wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 07:21:00PM -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote: That's a problem with D distribution, not with the compiler. It would be better to fix the original problem =) It amazes me that people have trouble installing D. Download, unzip, done. It couldn't be

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread BCS
Hello linux, The site looks like it was created using some generic boring documentation tool with a basic minimalistic style template. It might attract some developers who think that javadoc or doxygen looks a bit too artistic for their taste and their largest goal in life is to win the

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jérôme M. Berger jeber...@free.fr wrote in message news:hspm5b$1h9...@digitalmars.com... There's also Greasemonkey.

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:hspj3m$1c9...@digitalmars.com... People often say it doesn't look professional. I agree it could probably use better colors, etc. But for this kind of web site, I think it's just wrong to use flash, javascript, or anything that

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Walter Bright
Nick Sabalausky wrote: I recently completed a revamp of the digitalmars site that got rid of the table based layout in favor of using floating CSS layout. The result looks a bit nicer, and the printing should be much better. Speaking as a web developer, I've found that floating CSS is

Re: dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

2010-05-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:hsqhhg$fm...@digitalmars.com... Nick Sabalausky wrote: I recently completed a revamp of the digitalmars site that got rid of the table based layout in favor of using floating CSS layout. The result looks a bit nicer, and the