LDC 1.24.0-beta1

[Patrick Schluter]

On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 00:00:02 UTC, starcanopy wrote:
> On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:48:33 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>> On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote:
>>> On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Not saying Kinke SHOULD do it. Was rather disagreeing with 
>>> the idea that "developers" don't use installers. And that's a 
>>> shortcoming with the LDC project...no straightforward way to 
>>> set it up on Windows using an installer. If visuald supports 
>>> LDC, why not point people to it.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I agree with this. Not providing an installer gives the 
>> message that you're not that interested in people using it.
>
> That's an exaggeration. Every release is accompanied by 
> binaries that one may easily retrieve. Setting up the 
> dependencies is only done once, and if you're a Windows 
> developer, such an environment most likely exists, and you'll 
> likely only have to add the bin to your path. It's my 
> understanding that there are few people regularly working on 
> LDC; allocating (voluntary!) manpower to a nice but 
> non-essential component doesn't seem wise.

You underestimate how spoiled windows developer are. Even these 
simple step are completely out of character for most software on 
the platform. 20 years ago it wasn't a problem, now on Windows 10 
it's a whole other story. How many clicks to get the dialog to 
set PATH? On NT4 it was 2 clicks, now on Windows 10 I still 
haven't figured out how to do it without searching like a madman.

To make it short. The Windows platform is getting more and more 
hostile to manual tuning.