Windows DMD installer

[Ary Borenszweig]

Daniel Keep escribió:
> 
> BCS wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> One thing I should probably have made explicit: the Cygwin setup program
> downloads all packages as you request them, *and keeps a local cache*.
> 
> Let's say you wanted to install D on a machine with no 'net access.
> Grab the installer, put it on a 'net-connected machine, select what you
> want and check a "download only" option.  Then you can archive the whole
> directory for later.
> 
>> Anything worth looking at will do the only things I think a DMD
>> installer should do.
> 
> The only reason I don't suggest putting together a simple installer
> is... I just don't see the point.  Lacking any sort of "bundle-ready"
> IDE or documentation, what would it do?
> 
> I suppose it'd be trivial to knock together something that just extracts
> the archive and sets the PATH.  I just have a very hard time accepting
> that there exist "programmers" THAT lazy and/or stupid.
> 
> Oh to hell with it.

It's not about being lazy!

If you can double click a file and it does all the things for you, why 
would you want to do it manually?

It's actually a programmers philosophy. If you can write a program that 
does the things for you, instead of you having to do them manually, why not?