dmd 2.065.0

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Tue Apr 1 12:03:09 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 29 March 2014 at 13:25:19 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote:
> On Friday, 28 March 2014 at 22:50:32 UTC, Théo Bueno wrote:
>> I am having an issue with the windows installer :
>
> Ok, so after investigations I partially fixed my problem :
>
> - I have no idea why the installer tried to download with the 
> wrong URL, this should not happen, and on my own compiled 
> version of the installer this did not happen.
>
> - The plugin used by NSIS to download files, inetc, depends on 
> WinetAPI, which means that if your Internet Explorer 
> installation is not working ( that was my case ), the installer 
> can't work.
>
> - The installer code is very old, and we should think about 
> updating it ( replace the obsolete "nsisunz" plugin by 
> "ZipDLL", avoid "inetc" problems using builtin "NSISdl" ... )

The current plan (by me at least) is to just do away with the 
downloading entirely and just embedding the files in the 
installer.


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