Website message overhaul

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-11-15 15:23, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
> news:j9t5gq$88e$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2011-11-15 03:18, Kapps wrote:
>>> There should be a very noticeable "Download Now" button on the page
>>> itself, without having to look at the sidebar. Every time I go to
>>> download DMD, it is always annoying trying to figure out where the link
>>> is. Even more confusing the first time you do it. Ideally, it could
>>> auto-detect your OS and send you to a download link directly for it, but
>>> that starts becoming too dynamic and may be too much effort to detect in
>>> a good way.
>>
>> Just use DVM to install the latest compiler, then it's only:
>>
>> "dvm install -l"
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm
>>
>
> DVM really should be officially sanctioned and prominently recommended on
> d-p-l.org.
>
> I think the only big improvement DVM could really use at this point is a
> system-wide installation option that avoids the "edit .bashrc/whatever..."
> step on Posix. With just that, I really think it should be the #1
> recommended way of obtaining DMD. And installers should be based upon it.

Yeah, system-wide installation would be nice. Just takes some thought to 
figure out how it should work together with single-user installations.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg