Download page needs a tidy up

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 22/08/2013 14:13, Ludovit Lucenic wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 03:23:57 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> I got the latest GDC from dlang.org/download, but it doesn't work.
>> libiconv-2.dll (and possibly others?) is not included in the package.
>>
>> If this depends on another package being present, there is no text
>> anywhere
>> along the download path to inform the user.
>>
>>
>> On 22 August 2013 13:07, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>
> I am completely with you, Manu.
> Same with me with GDC under Windows. Missing libiconv-2.dll...
> The same happened to me when looking around for the other two D
> compilers. It took me a couple of days until I found the link on the
> dlang.org's download page.
>
> Any suggestions on where to get a working copy of GDC to run on Windows,
> please?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludovit

Check out: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l1q33o$2m6i$1@digitalmars.com

I haven't tried the 64 bit alternative though (which has a more recent 
DMD frontend version: 2.060)

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer