Well, it's been a total failure

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:44:57 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't you use your archiver to do that for you? F2, rename, extract.
> Done deal. I like to keep the latest version in the DMD2 folder, all
> the better for compatibility with existing build scripts. I really
> wouldn't want to have to keep renaming paths in makefiles for every
> release of DMD2. Although I'll never have that problem since I can
> rename the folder inside the zip.

I don't use an "archiver", I just unzip.  Then I have to rename.  I  
typically keep all versions I've extracted intact so I can test older  
versions against code.

I can see why that's not advantageous to simple users.  However, it's  
pretty standard to have source archives extract to a version-specific  
directory, and there's a lot of source code in the archive.  For one  
thing, you don't want to extract over the old one, since files that may be  
deleted in the new archive would not be removed by extracting.

The best way to handle installation for your purposes is to use an  
installer.  That will remove older files and install newer ones.

BTW, this is a non-issue on non-windows systems, because you have the  
universally accepted symlink method of pointing at a different version.

-Steve