DIP75 - Release Process

Thu Mar 12 07:24:45 PDT 2015

On Thursday, 12 March 2015 at 07:44:01 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-03-11 17:27, Anon wrote:
>
>> Ignoring that for a moment, where does it stop? Do we include 
>> an
>> editor? [sarcasm] Why not? Every D developer needs to edit 
>> their
>> code! Let's go ahead and call Eclipse+DDT the "standard" D 
>> editor,
>> and bundle that with dmd. [/sarcasm]
>
> I don't see why not. Both Microsoft and Apple ship an IDE with 
> their SDK's.

That's an IDE that includes a compiler, not a compiler that 
includes an IDE. You aren't downloading cl, you're downloading 
VisualStudio. That you also get cl is an implementation detail. 
If Bruno wanted to release a build of Eclipse+DDT that came with 
a compiler, I'd have no problem with that.