Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 01:52:34 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: I was forced to install VS to get one since for some reason the 7A and 8.1 Windows SDK's did not install a complete 64-bit toolchain for me. Seems like Microsoft dropped the compiler from the SDK. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 01:55:35 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: There is probably an obvious reason this is not possible but I could not see it when reading through the MS licensing information. It seems to me the linker bin could be redistributed. Why is it (and the other required lib/dll fi

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:10:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: You're not allowed to redistribute the VS binaries, only the libc dlls. On Win32 we use our own libc (dmc) and linker (optlink). We could improve our installer so it can optionally start the VS compiler installation. https://issu

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-07-26 15:55, Martin Nowak wrote: BTW, I'd like to phase out the fat 50-60MB combined zip, and add tar.xz/gz for linux/freebsd/osx. Does anyone still rely on the combined zip? I noticed building the installer for OS X relies on that as well. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 01:55:35 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: There is probably an obvious reason this is not possible but I could not see it when reading through the MS licensing information. It seems to me the linker bin could be redistributed. 9. SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licen

std.data.json formal review

2015-07-29 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/nbuhouhimowvcqssv...@forum.dlang.org

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:10:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: You're not allowed to redistribute the VS binaries, only the libc dlls. On Win32 we use our own libc (dmc) and linker (optlink). We could improve our installer so it can optionally start the VS compiler installation. If it only

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2015-07-29 13:12, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I noticed building the installer for OS X relies on that as well. Never mind, I looked at an old version of the makefile. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 11:56:34 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 01:55:35 UTC, Joseph Cassman wrote: There is probably an obvious reason this is not possible but I could not see it when reading through the MS licensing information. It seems to me the linker bin could be

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 15:45:19 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: I guess what I mean to say is that they did it, maybe it can be done. Of course it can be done with an additional license agreement with microsoft. Of course VS Shell is still way more than is necessary for our purposes.

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

2015-07-29 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development Thanks! I have pre-ordered your book though I'm currently playing with Rust and Go. The performance of D is pullin

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:16:39 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 07:10:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: You're not allowed to redistribute the VS binaries, only the libc dlls. On Win32 we use our own libc (dmc) and linker (optlink). We could improve our installer so it c

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

2015-07-29 Thread Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 18:13:22 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 15:45:19 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: I guess what I mean to say is that they did it, maybe it can be done. Of course it can be done with an additional license agreement with microsoft. Of course VS Sh