D: A language without focus

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In article <e2r088$2in4$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, John Demme says...
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>gabe wrote:
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>> I look forward to hearing from you!
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>> New to the land of D, but I like the look of the place.
>> -Gabe
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>It sounds to me like a project needs to be started with the goal of
>producing a packaged D.  One file (with an installer) that includes:
>-DMD (or GDC)
>-build
>-Ares + Mango
>-A set of Ddoc macros to get some really nice documentation output
>-Really nice looking and complete documentation
>-Code examples, along with compilation instructions
>-Integration of this software, where ever applicable
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>I might note that a lot of this stuff already exists, but it needs to be
>packaged together!

Exactly! Kind of a "D Programmer's Toolkit" or SDK.

If I may make some suggestions for inclusion: 

- Installation features for both Windows and Linux/Unix users.  Perhaps even
provide an .exe or .msi for Windows folks and scripts for both userland and root
installations under *nix.

- Would obviously be lacking an IDE and windowing toolkit once those projects
mature.

Actually, if Walter just included build with his DMD distros, that would be a
huge step forward.  On a new system it's already the third thing I download
right after DMD and the DMC backend.

- EricAnderton at yahoo