LDC 1.1.0 released

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 16:30:47 UTC, Sai wrote:
> I am not sure how to download the prebuilt from GitHub, I am 
> not good at navigating the GitHub pages yet. I already verified 
> the snap, if you can give me a link to the pre-built on Github, 
> I will download and test it on my PC.

I don't think the GitHub prebuilt 1.1.1 packages are available 
yet.  You can check the list of releases (and corresponding 
downloads) here:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases

> Thank you (and David) for fixing this very promptly.

David did all the fixes, I just tested them out to make sure they 
worked ;-)

> Just a stupid question:  Which one is preferred as a user? Snap 
> version or the prebuilt version on Github? Personally I don't 
> mind as long as the download/install instructions are clear. 
> But It seems to me that snap is supposed to be more user 
> friendly. So may be snaps are preferred for non-experts like me?

It's not at all a stupid question.

The easy answer is, "Whichever you prefer as a user."  The 
slightly more complicated answer is that the snap packages are 
quite a recent effort which is still somewhat work-in-progress.  
The current snap package is in the --edge snap channel (as in, 
'bleeding edge') for a reason. ;-)

However, in practice, as an Ubuntu user, it is likely to be just 
as effective for you, and certainly easier to install and keep up 
to date.  So if that works nicely for you, there's no reason you 
shouldn't continue to use it.

If you do that, though, I'd suggest keeping an eye out for 
announcements related to the snap package, since its status may 
change fairly often in the near future.  You can also report any 
compilation problems you encounter here:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc2.snap/issues