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

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 09:03:35 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> Realistically, no-one except an experienced full-time windows 
> developer is ever going to get this right.

It's not a simple tradeoff: Manu's usual requirement is that dmd 
must work at the utmost ease of use even if heavens crash. 
Correct behavior is possible, but the question is how much user 
experience he would like to sacrifice for correctness.