Download page needs a tidy up

David Nadlinger code at klickverbot.at
Thu Aug 22 14:49:59 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 03:07:39 UTC, Manu wrote:
> And why is there no LDC binary?

There are links to the LDC Linux/OS X binaries on the dlang.org 
download page.

As for the Windows/MinGW32 binaries, the last LDC release does 
officially include them (see the release announcement), but the 
MinGW port is still very much in an alpha/beta state.

For example, there is still at least one wrong-code issues with 
80 bit reals, and the test suite does not completely pass yet. 
Somewhat contrary to GDC, in case of LDC there are actual 
released versions that are guaranteed to be stable to a certain 
extent (i.e. the test suite passes on all relevant systems, …), 
and I was afraid that prematurely advertising the relatively 
fresh MinGW port would draw a wrong picture of the overall 
quality.

As the GDC/MinGW binaries are probably not more stable either, 
though, yet are linked on the dlang.org download page, I guess we 
should add the LDC MinGW link to the page as well, if maybe 
qualified with an "experimental" note.

Another issue is that a fairly recent mingw-w64 snapshot is 
needed in addition to the LDC download for GCC (linker, 
libraries). Older ones don't have my necessary fixes yet, and I 
don't know if they have made it into the "original" MinGW 
(without -w64) project yet. What would be the best way to add 
this to the/a download page?

In any case, you are right, the wiki.dlang.org/LDC "landing page" 
definitely needs to be either replaced with a proper homepage 
with download link auto-detection, …, or at least reorganized in 
such a way that the most important links for  new users, users 
wanting to report bugs/… as well as developers are clearly 
presented at the top (the first link in the "Getting Started" 
section would have been what you were looking for).

David


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