D seems interesting, but...

[Don Clugston]

On 15/10/12 13:39, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-10-15 11:58, Don Clugston wrote:
>
>> I tried that on both Windows and Ubuntu, and couldn't get it to work on
>> either of them. I posted a couple of bug reports eight months ago, and
>> they still haven't been fixed. Not recommended for anyone who is having
>> problems with their installation.
>
> I know it's not a perfect tool and it contains bugs but most things do
> work. I don't know which issues have been reported by you, but it seems
> there's a problem with the "-l" flag. Running "dvm install 2.060"
> usually works. Could you please point out which issues have been
> reported by you.

I don't remember, it's a long time ago. But this was one of them:
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dvm/issues/11

Basically it was case of: download, find a bug, find another bug,
think "this has already cost me more time than it could ever save me", 
quit now.

>
> I have very limited time to work with D, as I understand most people
> here has, and I'm currently working on other projects than DVM since
> basically does what I intended it to do when I started the project.
>
> It seems most D installers are broken in one way or another. But the
> success rate with DVM seems to be quite high anyway.
>