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Ok, new release for these packages and quite a few improvements:

• Merge DSSS-xxx packages into just DSSS;
• Added a set of wrapper scripts for DSSS to properly use the desired installation and libraries (see below for a description);
• Both installations (GDC and DMD) can be installed simultaneously now and DSSS will recognize both (through the mentioned scripts);
• The libtangobos.a file for GDC is now called libgtangobos.a (added the “g” just like Tango did to live peacefully with the DMD version);
• Added 64bit packages (i.e. amd64) for GDC (DMD doesnt work yet on 64bit) and without Tangobos-GDC unfortunately (because Tangobos does not compile properly in a 64bit environment);
• Uniformized all package release numbers so that they all coincide.

Attention: I suggest that you uninstall any previously installed package before upgrading to these packages (and I recommend you DO upgrade) by running:

sudo dpkg --purge dsss tangobos-gdc tango-gdc dsss-gdc gdc gdc-4.2 libphobos-4.2-dev tangobos-dmd tango-dmd dsss-dmd dmd

D Packages for 32bit(i386/i686) - Release 3:

• GDC: run sudo apt-get -y install gdc
• Tango for GDC: tango-gdc_0.99.5-3_i386.deb
• Tangobos for GDC: tangobos-gdc_39-3_i386.deb
• DMD: dmd_1.027-3_i386.deb
  (a package for D 2.0 also exists at the DM website)
• Tango for DMD: tango-dmd_0.99.5-3_i386.deb
• Tangobos for DMD: tangobos-dmd_39-3_i386.deb
• DSSS (for DMD and GDC): dsss_0.75-3_i386.deb

D Packages for 64bit(amd64) - Release 3:

• GDC: run sudo apt-get -y install gdc
• Tango for GDC: tango-gdc_0.99.5-3_amd64.deb
• Tangobos for GDC: not available (compilation breaks - is there a fix?)
• DMD: not available
• Tango for DMD: not available
• Tangobos for DMD: not available
• DSSS (for DMD and GDC): dsss_0.75-3_amd64.deb

D Packages generation scripts - Release 3: DPackages-Release3.tar.bz2

DSSS Explanation:

The best way I could imagine to have both GDC and DMD installations as well as Tango and Tangobos (if desired) live peacefully at the same time (and on the same computer of course) was to make a set of wrapper scripts to the dsss executable that changed the requested profile at call time. So here they are:

• dsss-gdc runs dsss with the original GDC + Phobos configuration (this is when you don’t have Tango and Tangobos installed);
• dsss-gdc-tango runs dsss properly linking with Tango libs (this is when you have Tango installed - also works if Tangobos is installed as well);
• dsss-gdc-tangobos runs dsss properly linking to both Tangobos as well as Tango (this is when you have both Tango and Tangobos installed);
• dsss-dmd same as dsss-gdc but uses DMD;
• dsss-dmd-tango same as dsss-gdc-tango but uses DMD;
• dsss-dmd-tangobos same as dsss-gdc-tangobos but uses DMD;

These scripts actually change the DSS active profile so you really only need to call them only once (when you want to change the needed profile to what you are using) and then just use dsss as you normally would do (so if you use gdc, tango and tangobos to support some old library, just call dsss-gdc-tangobos only once, without any parameters and then use “dsss whatever…”). Also note that when changing profiles, the scripts will ask you for your password because they need sudo to do that (but only when changing to a different profile).

I know that these packages should be put in a repository (I’m sorry for this messy linking between posts - that’s all I have for now) but I simply had no time for it. I’ll look into it as soon as I have some spare time.

Let me know how these work out for you! :)

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