Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Manu]

On 12 September 2013 02:06, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 11 September 2013 at 06:31:50 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 10.09.2013 20:03, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/10/13 9:31 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 19:05:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Recent threads here have made it pretty clear that VisualD is a
>>>>> critical piece of D infrastructure. (VisualD integrated D usage into
>>>>> Microsoft Visual Studio.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrei, myself and Rainer (VisualD's champion) are all in agreement on
>>>>> this.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since it's official I think it'd be nice to add to the Windows
>>>> Installer.  I'll get started adding it if you or Andrei give me the go
>>>> ahead.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes please. Make it an opt-out choice.
>>>
>>
>> Alternatively, I could add dmd to the Visual D installer. If the files
>> are actually inside the package, I guess it is a bit easier this way
>> because the Visual D installer does quite a bit of registration and
>> patching.
>>
>> But both installers use NSIS, so it shouldn't be a big deal to merge them
>> either way.
>>
>>
>>
>>>  Once dub is a bit more mature I think it too should be added to the
>>>> installer.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That should probably be in all installers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>>
>>
> I was just going to have the DMD installer download Visual-D's installer
> and run it.  Seemed like the easiest approach.  This would make it so
> Visual-D's releases aren't tied to DMD's and people could upgrade Visual-D
> independently if a new release comes out.  Every release of DMD we'd just
> update the Visual-D installer URL to match the current release.
>

Or just point at 'latest' somehow?

The most important thing is that the Visual-D installer doesn't need to ask
the user where he chose to install DMD only a few seconds prior.
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