short praise

[Rob T]

On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 18:39:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> What OS are you using? Installing from source is actually very 
> easy on
> Linux (and other Posix OS's).
>
> 	http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
>
> (Very easy, compared to installation of other toolchains, like 
> GCC,
> which is a royal pain in the behind to build from source. And 
> that's an
> understatement.)

The point I wanted to state, is that we should work towards 
making it as simple as possible to test out the latest beta 
snapshot, so that even the most casual D user can try it out. The 
more beta testers we have, the better tested the next release 
will be. A packaged snapshot would be a lot simpler than having 
users installing from source.

One thing about this, when testing a beta version, you still need 
to use the released version, so if there's ever a packaged beta 
made available, the package should allow two (or more) versions 
of the compiler to co-exist.

--rt