Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

A D dev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 4 11:47:36 PDT 2016


Hi group,

Somewhat new to D.

What is the recommended procedure, if any, to upgrade my DMD 
installation (on Windows, if that makes a difference)?

I.e. If I have 2.70.0 and I saw that 2.17.1 is out now, I can 
look at the list of bug fixes and any new features in the new 
version and decide whether I want to upgrade, or wait for another 
version with more changes that matter to me. That is not what my 
question is about. My question is about:

- should I just install the new version in the same directory, 
over the old version, or do I need to uninstall the old version 
first.

- if I have to first uninstall the old version, are there any 
persistent setting for the compiler that I need to save before 
the uninstall and then restore after the new install?

- any other things I need to take care of?

Thanks.



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