Windows DMD installer

[BCS]

Hello Daniel,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello Daniel,
>> 
>>> I actually started sketching out a possible installer a few weeks
>>> ago. Here's what I came up with:
>>> 
>>> First of all, you can't include DMD itself in the installer since
>>> the license doesn't allow for this.
>>> 
>> with Walter's blessing you can. Tango goes this way.
>> 
> But technically, the people who download it then can't redistribute
> it.
> I just think it's simpler to have the installer download the zip file
> itself and avoid the problem in its entirety.

I guess it's just that an installer that needs anything else (including an 
internet connection) to install seems utterly pointless to me. In my book 
an installer is firstly the data to be installed and secondly a tool to configure 
it. When I download an installer, I want to know that it will work where 
ever and when ever I have that file. Even if Walter decides to shutdown digitalmars 
so he can go off and become a monk.

> (Incidentally, I actually already have permission from Walter to
> redistribute DMD; a professor at uni wanted to take a peek so I put
> together an installer.)
> 
>>> As for using an installer "tool", I don't think that's really
>>> applicable for something like this.  I say write it in D because
>>> otherwise we'll have people saying that D sucks because we don't use
>>> it.
>>> 
>> Um, I've got to say I think you are wrong on this. Installer tools
>> will cut the effort to produce this by like 90%. I'd rather see that
>> time spent on just about anything rather than using D just so we can
>> say we do.
>> 
> I've never met one that could do the sorts of tasks I'm proposing.  If
> such a tool does exist, then fantastic; let's use that.
> 

Anything worth looking at will do the only things I think a DMD installer 
should do.