GitHub behind proxy servers among other questions

[monarch_dodra]

On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 19:57:52 UTC, JohnnyK wrote:
> On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 19:37:08 UTC, JohnnyK wrote:
> Another thing about GitHub's Download Zip button and this 
> process as a whole.  While the Download Zip button does allow 
> you to download the master folders with recursive directories I 
> do find it somewhat cumbersome or should I say awkward since 
> you have to extract these in their correct locations upon 
> download.  This is not good when you are trying to follow 
> someones instructions on how to download, build, and install 
> their wares.  I just don't get git?  Just compile the code and 
> put a binary up there for people to use.  If I want to 
> contribute to the code base then I will I guess go through all 
> this hassle but for those of us not smart enough to contribute 
> and just want to use it show me the binary please.  In the 
> amount of time it is taking to get this stuff I could have made 
> major strides at building my own.  Also I don't know what this 
> fragmented downloading is going to do in the future when I want 
> an updated version of the software.  Please remember many of us 
> are simpletons and don't use all these fancy version control 
> systems and just need the binary so that we can use it.  I 
> guess you could say we are your customers and not your 
> contributors.  Please everyone in the D community try and 
> follow the KISS methodology and if you do I bet you could get 
> many more users of your wares and not people banging their 
> heads until they give up.  Yeah I was only 2 clicks away from 
> giving up on this whole D thing thinking it was just too darned 
> hard to make it worth my while.  Who knows I still may give up 
> since I have not attempted to compile it yet.  I think I will 
> wait until tomorrow before I try to tackle that part of the 
> destruction's.  For now I think I have it downloaded.  BTW did 
> I mention that I really hate git and compiling other people's 
> code just to use an edit box and button on a dialog???

Ar you talking about D specifically? You *can* just download the 
package you know:
http://dlang.org/download.html
I'm actually wondering how you even reached git?