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

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On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 17:47:11 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 16:30:04 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> I really don't know what the "correct" way to deal with this 
>> is in Windows, but the way that it's set up does seem to 
>> naturally cause more problems with PATH than you typically get 
>> in *nix.
>
> Both work fine until you have conflicts. Imagine you want to 
> use two versions of dmd in parallel.

It is normally solved by embedding version name in a binary and 
providing symlink to the default (i.e. pytjon2 vs python3)