Pathing in the D ecosystem is generally broken (at least on windows)

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 00:25:54 UTC, Manu wrote:
> I update DMD yesterday, it couldn't work out where it was 
> installed and the uninstall fails, then complains and errors 
> when trying to install over the failed uninstall, requiring 
> manual intervention.
>
> [...]

There seems to be a trend here:
Windows devs have problems getting D to install/work correctly on 
their machines.
Non-windows devs boot up windows and test it and it works fine 
for them (In this case that was me).

I seriously doubt that much progress will be made here unless 
some dedicated full-time modern Windows developers take over or 
at least significantly help with the installer code. Someone like 
you has years of experience and knowledge about what are good/bad 
solutions on windows, what workarounds/hacks are OK and which 
will be abhorrent to users, what will likely break in newer 
versions of windows/VS etc. etc. etc.

Realistically, no-one except an experienced full-time windows 
developer is ever going to get this right.