Recommended procedure to upgrade DMD installation

[A D dev via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 22:20:12 UTC, Seb wrote:

> OT: 2.071.0 has been released in April - you may check more 
> often ;-)
>

That - 2.071.0 - was actually a typo - I meant to type 2.071.1 - 
which I read (probably on a recent edition of This Week in D) has 
been released recently.

> I never use(d) Windows, but I can help you in the way that 
> there are no persistent settings. A DMD installation is 
> completely independent in it's folder. Hence you can safely 
> install the new version in the same directory, but I would make 
> at least a copy of the old version first - just in case any 
> regression popped in.
>

> The only configuration file is `dmd.conf` (for common flags), a 
> user usually doesn't need to modify it, so I would be surprised 
> if you did.

Thanks for the answers.