dmd 2.064.2

[Brad Anderson]

On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 22:24:03 UTC, Orvid King wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 22:08:48 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> Ok, this is it:
>>
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.064.2-0_amd64.deb
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.fedora.i386.rpm
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.fedora.x86_64.rpm
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd_2.064.2-0_i386.deb
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.openSUSE.i386.rpm
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2-0.openSUSE.x86_64.rpm
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd-2.064.2.exe
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.064.2.zip
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.064.2.dmg
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/libphobos2-64_2.064.2-0_amd64.deb
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/libphobos2-64_2.064.2-0_i386.deb
>
> Dear world: DO NOT use the windows installer if you have 
> ANYTHING
> other than the default installed files in your previous install
> folder, because it will delete EVERYTHING. (and this isn't an
> understatement, my C:/D folder is now entirely empty but for a
> single git index which was locked by my IDE), this means I have
> now lost my local checkouts of the D repos, my git-head dmd
> install location, as well as my auto-build-install-test scripts,
> and my local copy of my JSON work. Thankfully my JSON work 
> wasn't even the latest copy anyways. Deleting everything IS NOT 
> uninstalling.

The Windows installer has been replaced with the correct version 
which does not do this.