Download page needs a tidy up

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 20:07:31 PDT 2013


So I'm trying to find windows binaries for GDC and LDC...

First place I look is dlang.org/download. Appears to be for DMD... keep
looking.

I look at the GDC/LDC wiki pages. No links to binaries anywhere.
GDC and LDC home pages... no links to binaries.
Github doesn't host binaries anymore...

Where are they?

Turns out there are links to the GDC binaries (hosted on bitbucket) on
dlang.org/download.
...I didn't previously notice they were there, never scrolled down far
enough. The impression you get from the top of the page is that
dlang.orgis just DMD related, and I quickly dismissed it previously
>_<

But there's still no LDC binary there... where is it?

This needs to be fixed. You can argue I'm retarded and ignorant, but as an
end user, it should take me no more than 5 seconds to find the download
button.

I suggest, on the front page of dlang.org, there should be a MASSIVE
button: "DOWNLOAD D COMPILERS", and the download page should be tweaked to
be more obviously compiler agnostic.

D1 and DMC consume an unreasonable amount of realestate, hiding GDC/LDC
(surely basically nobody is looking for those?), perhaps they should be
reduced to small test links with the other links down the bottom of the
page?
This will allow room to present GDC and LDC without scrolling.

And why is there no LDC binary?
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