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

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Sep 25 22:17:49 PDT 2015


On 9/25/2015 9:07 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I did file each one yesterday as I encountered these problems.

Ah, wonderful!

> My post
> was about something slightly different though, I just want to try and
> bring it to attention again that the little things matter more than
> the attention they tend to get.
> I think it's important to realise that the ecosystem is taken in
> aggregate. DMD can do a great job of this stuff, but if LDC doesn't
> have the same love, it's 'D' in general that gets the blame.

I understand.

> Out of curiosity, what is the strategy wrt LDC and GDC moving forward?
> Will they move towards simultaneous releases? Will they be included in
> CI builds, such that PR's which break (or don't work) the other
> compilers do fail CI?
> GDC as a culture has different packaging expectations so I don't think
> it's affected so much, but especially for Windows users LDC is the way
> forward, and it should be as solid as DMD in terms of presentation.

I'll leave that to the GDC and LDC teams.



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