DMD VS2017 Support

[Jolly James via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 20 April 2017 at 17:10:05 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 April 2017 at 17:06:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Thursday, 20 April 2017 at 14:44:54 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 20 April 2017 at 14:29:28 UTC, Jolly James wrote:
>>>> What has the DMD compiler to do with a VS plugin that I am 
>>>> not using?
>>>
>>> You said in your original post "DMD installer only offers to 
>>> install VS2013". This isn't the DMD installer but the Visual 
>>> D installer that installs the plugin for the appropriate 
>>> version of Visual Studio. As Mike said, though, you can also 
>>> just edit sc.ini if you don't want to use Visual D.
>>
>> It actually does offer to install both VS 2013 and Visual D.
>
> Wow, I did not know that. Seems a little excessive.

But anyway, that's how it is.

By the way: installing VS2013 is only offered to you, if no 
compatible version (atm VS2015 or older) is found on your machine.