Bundle LDC with Visual D

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 31/05/2019 10:07, kinke wrote:
> On Friday, 31 May 2019 at 08:00:53 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> The installer comes with latest multilib release preinstalled
>> (currently 1.15.0), but Visual D looks for updates via the github API.
> 
> Ah, nice. We also have http://ldc-developers.github.io/LATEST[_BETA] to
> check the latest versions (e.g., those are used by Travis for `d:
> ldc[-beta]`).

This is similar to dmd, but it needs more guessing what the actual file
name is.

>> it would be nice if the current naming conventions and folders in the
>> archive are kept ;-)
> 
> Heh, yeah that's the reason I haven't switched to semver-compatibility
> for beta releases (`-beta.1` vs. `-beta1`)...

I don't think that would be a problem. It's currently required that the
top level folder in the archive has the same name as the archive itself.