D Installler

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 29 10:17:50 PDT 2007


An installer for D that's not written in D itself.  Oh, the humanity and 
ensuing embarrassment.  Please, no.

Additionally, doesn't Tango already come with an installer for both 
windows and linux?

Lester Martin wrote:
> The thing is I'm writing the installer in C# since I can use it so easily.
> Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> 
>> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
>> news:fdlff7$2v9t$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>>> Um, suggestion number 1 is don't require users to download a 22.4 MB 
>>> framework just to install a 5MB compiler package.
>> While I agree that having the installer depend upon .NET 2.0 is a bit.. odd, 
>> keep in mind that any reasonably up-to-date windows machine will already 
>> have it installed.  I mean, it's not like it's new technology, it came out 
>> almost two years ago. 
>>
>>




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