ldc and gdc

[Adam Ruppe]

LDC and GDC are both alive and pretty well up to date with D2. They
have some advantages that make them favored to some people.

But, they are kinda hard to find and get to a point where you can use
them. dmd is trivially easy to "install" and use. You just download it
and run, and it just works in the vast majority of cases.


Are there binary packages available for their D2 builds, complete
with phobos and druntime, for both Windows and Linux? I'd really like
to see binary zips of them comparable to dmd in ease of use.

Once they exist, can we get them linked to in the main changelog or
something similar?


Basically, I want them to be mostly equal alternatives to dmd so
people can pick from the three with ease. Then, when people complain
"gdc is out of date" we can say "actually, it's right there in the
change log right next to dmd". When people say "I'd prefer ldc
to dmd", we can say "that's ok, it's right there, make any choice
you like".

It seems to me to be a relatively easy answer to a lot of reddit,
etc. questions.