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

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 12:17:42 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> 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.

The complexity of the tradeoff is exactly why experienced windows 
developers are necessary here. For example: any tradeoffs I 
designed would likely be very far from pareto-optimal on windows, 
let alone be a good solution overall.