Release D 2.071.0

Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 9 09:50:09 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 6 April 2016 at 14:13:16 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> I know the all-platform .zip files are wasteful, but any 
> practical reason for removing them? Unless the hosting cost is 
> not negligible, breaking existing tools/scripts may not be 
> worth it.

Sorry that you missed that, it's been decided and discussed 
several times since half a year ago that we want to get rid of 
the huge useless downloads, even more so since we're releasing 
much more often. Any user of your tools will be thankful for a 
much quicker download as well.
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mp2ou8$1qrf$1@digitalmars.com
http://forum.dlang.org/post/55D9DF2A.8090203@dawg.eu
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer/commit/5a2ed94953c007b1bc374f46073a60bda53635d1


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