Windows Installer Completely Whacks the PATH

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 14:58:33 PST 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:06 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig:
>> but there isn't a solution there. If someone finds a solution the
>> installer should be changed to that.
>
> If that's a real bug, then the installer on the site has to be removed until a solution is found. Because such bug is not ethic and it's an awful anti-advertising.


Exactly why there's no way I'll use an installer some dude hacked up
in C# in about a week.
Too many little issues like that which can bite ya.

To the OP -- sorry this happened to you.  Stick to the Zip files from
now on.  There's nothing fancy about installing DMD.  Just unzip it
somewhere and add it to your path.

--bb



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