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

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:43:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 15:40:54 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 12:50:55 UTC, John Colvin 
>> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> No, a tradeoff is a tradeoff, one tradeoff is not better than 
>> another
>
> That's what pareto-optimal means.

Well, a tradeoff is a choice between two pareto optimal variants 
:)

>> it depends on priorities, not experience.
>
> and what informs those priorities? My ideas of what is 
> important on windows are not going to be as well informed as 
> someone with more experience with the platform.

I suppose, PATH variable on windows works the same as on unix? 
And path hell can be easily reproduced on unix too. Nothing 
windows-specific here.